Compensatory heterogeneity in spatially explicit capture-recapture data

Ecology

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1341-1348

  Efford, M G ^a   Mowat, G ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b RESEARCH BRANCH   (Canada)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Carnivores; Density estimates; DNA; Effective sampling area; Grizzly bear; Heterogeneity; Home range; SECR; Sex differences; Single detector sampling area; Spatially explicit capture recapture; Ursus arctos

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BEAR; CARNIVORE; COMPENSATION; HETEROGENEITY; HOME RANGE; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; POPULATION DENSITY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

DNA; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEAR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA; FEMALE; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; URSIDAE;

EID: 84903579766     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-1497.1     Document Type: Article

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