Gopher Tortoise hatchling survival: Field study and meta-analysis

Herpetologica

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 334-344

  Perez Heydrich, Carolina ^a,b   Jackson, Katharine ^a   Wendland, Lori D ^a   Brown, Mary B ^a  

^a Scott)   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL   (United States)

Author keywords

Gopher Tortoise; Hatchling ecology; Meta analysis; Survival analysis; Vital rates

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; AGE CLASS; BIOTELEMETRY; BURROWING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FIELDWORK; HATCHING; HETEROGENEITY; META-ANALYSIS; PARAMETERIZATION; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; TURTLE; VULNERABILITY;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84867286773     PISSN: 00180831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1655/HERPETOLOGICA-D-11-00046.1     Document Type: Article

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