Dead or gone? Bayesian inference on mortality for the dispersing sex

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 14, 2016, Pages 4910-4923

  Barthold, Julia A ^a,b,c   Packer, Craig ^d   Loveridge, Andrew J ^a   Macdonald, David W ^a   Colchero, Fernando ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

African lion; age specific mortality; dispersal; sex differences in mortality; Siler model; true survival

Indexed keywords

EID: 84977108861     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.2247     Document Type: Article

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