Estimating changes in mean population age using the death distributions of live-captured medflies

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 359-369

  Carey, James R ^a,b   Papadopoulos, Nikos T ^c   Papanastasiou, Stella ^c   Diamantidis, Alexandros ^a,c   Nakas, Christos T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Age estimation; Ageing in the wild; Biodemography; Captive cohort; Ceratitis capitata; Insect demography; Insect survival; Life table; Population sampling; Tephritidae

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; AGING POPULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; ESTIMATION METHOD; FLY; LIFE TABLE; LONGEVITY; MORTALITY; POPULATION ESTIMATION; SEASONALITY; SURVIVAL; TOXICOLOGY;

GREECE; MAGNESIA; THESSALY; VOLOS;

CERATITIS CAPITATA; HEXAPODA; TEPHRITIDAE;

EID: 84866182199     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: 13652311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2012.01372.x     Document Type: Article

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