Exploring causal pathways in demographic parameter variation: Path analysis of mark-recapture data

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 427-432

  Gimenez, Olivier ^a   Anker Nilssen, Tycho ^b   Grosbois, Vladimir ^c,d  

^a CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^d CIRAD   (France)

Author keywords

Atlantic puffin; Bayesian inference; Causal modelling; Cormack Jolly Seber model; Environmental covariates; Survival estimation; WinBUGS

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867357012     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2041-210X.2011.00150.x     Document Type: Article

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