Estimating survival rates with time series of standing age-structure data

Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 726-732

  Udevitz, Mark S ^a   Gogan, Peter J P ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Age structure; Bison; Demographic rates; Fecundity; Inverse methods; Mortality; Population growth rate; Population models; Survival; Yellowstone National Park

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; DATA SET; DEMOGRAPHY; ESTIMATION METHOD; FECUNDITY; GROWTH RATE; INVERSE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; POPULATION MODELING; SMOOTHING; SURVIVAL; TIME SERIES; UNGULATE;

AGING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BUFFALO; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

AGING; ANIMALS; BISON; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

UNITED STATES; YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK;

BISON; BISON BISON;

EID: 84861392552     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-1766.1     Document Type: Article

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