Separating mortality and emigration: Modelling space use, dispersal and survival with robust-design spatial capture-recapture data

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1327-1336

  Ergon, Torbjørn ^a   Gardner, Beth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arvicoline (Arvicolinae) rodents; Bayesian analysis; Competing risks; Dispersal ecology; Hierarchical modelling; Individual random effects; Life history evolution; OpenBUGS WinBUGS JAGS; Posterior predictive checks; Spacing behaviour

Indexed keywords

ARVICOLINAE; MICROTUS AGRESTIS;

EID: 84899768135     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12133     Document Type: Article

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