When Celibacy Matters: Incorporating Non-Breeders Improves Demographic Parameter Estimates

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Pardo, Deborah ^a,b   Weimerskirch, Henri ^a   Barbraud, Christophe ^a  

^a CENTRE D ETUDES BIOLOGIQUES DE CHIZÉ   (France)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; BIRD; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIOMEDEA EXULANS; HATCHING; MARK RECAPTURE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MONITORING; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROBABILITY; SENESCENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TAXONOMY;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BIRDS; CONSUMMATORY BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENT; LONGEVITY; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION;

AVES; DIOMEDEA EXULANS;

EID: 84875542099     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060389     Document Type: Article

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