Integrating demographic data: Towards a framework for monitoring wildlife populations at large spatial scales

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1361-1372

  Robinson, Robert A ^a   Morrison, Catriona A ^a   Baillie, Stephen R ^a  

^a THE NUNNERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age specific survival; Avian population change; Bayesian state space models; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Recruitment

Indexed keywords

AVES; PASSERIFORMES; STRIX ALUCO; TURDUS PHILOMELOS;

EID: 84916939197     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12204     Document Type: Article

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