A multievent approach to estimating pair fidelity and heterogeneity in state transitions

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 4326-4338

  Culina, Antica ^a   Lachish, Shelly ^a   Pradel, Roger ^b   Choquet, Remi ^b   Sheldon, Ben C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Great tit; Heterogeneous recapture rates; Multievent mark recapture modeling; Survival

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887515420     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.729     Document Type: Article

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