Looking for a needle in a haystack: Inference about individual fitness components in a heterogeneous population

Oikos

Volumn 122, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 739-753

  Cam, Emmanuelle ^a,b   Gimenez, Olivier ^a   Alpizar Jara, Russell ^d   Aubry, Lise M ^e   Authier, Matthieu ^a,c   Cooch, Evan G ^f   Koons, David N ^e   Link, William A ^g   Monnat, Jean Yves ^h   Nichols, James D ^g   Rotella, Jay J ⁱ   Royle, Jeffrey A ^g   Pradel, Roger ^a  

^a CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

^e UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^g PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^h Penn Ar Run Izella ^*  (France)

ⁱ MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FITNESS; HETEROGENEITY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MARKOV CHAIN; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SURVIVAL; VERTEBRATE; WILD POPULATION;

LARUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84876430089     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20532.x     Document Type: Article

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