Estimating age-specific survival when age is unknown: Open population capture-recapture models with age structure and heterogeneity

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 654-664

  Matechou, Eleni ^a   Pledger, Shirley ^b   Efford, Murray ^c   Morgan, Byron J T ^d   Thomson, David L ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^c University of Kent ^*

^d UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Brushtail possums; Finite mixtures; Senescence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879762049     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12061     Document Type: Article

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