Demographic importance of the life-cycle components in sceloporus grammicus

Herpetologica

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 411-435

  Pérez Mendoza, Hibraim A ^a   Jaime Zuniga Vega J ^a   Zurita Gutiérrez, Yazmín H ^a   Fornoni, Juan ^b   Solano Zavaleta, Israel ^a   Hernández Rosas, Ana L ^a   Molina Moctezuma, Alejandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Elasticity analysis; Fast slow continuum; Life history evolution; Mark recapture experiment; Projection matrices

Indexed keywords

DIVERGENCE; ELASTICITY; FECUNDITY; FITNESS; GROWTH; INTERPOPULATION VARIATION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LIZARD; MICROHABITAT; MORTALITY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GROWTH; SURVIVAL;

MEXICO [MEXICO (NTN)]; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 84890307266     PISSN: 00180831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1655/HERPETOLOGICA-D-12-00038R2     Document Type: Article

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