Fitting a Structured Juvenile-Adult Model for Green Tree Frogs to Population Estimates from Capture-Mark-Recapture Field Data

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 641-665

  Ackleh, Azmy S ^a   Carter, Jacoby ^b   Deng, Keng ^a   Huang, Qihua ^a   Pal, Nabendu ^a   Yang, Xing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL WETLANDS RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Age and size structure; Capture mark recapture method; Finite difference approximation; Juvenile adult model; Least squares approach; Parameter estimation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANURA; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ANURA; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; HYLA CINEREA; HYLIDAE;

EID: 84856737685     PISSN: 00928240     EISSN: 15229602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11538-011-9682-0     Document Type: Article

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