Methods for studying cause-specific senescence in the wild

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 924-933

  Koons, David N ^a,b   Gamelon, Marlène ^c   Gaillard, Jean Michel ^d   Aubry, Lise M ^a,b   Rockwell, Robert F ^e   Klein, François ^f   Choquet, Rémi ^b   Gimenez, Olivier ^b  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^e DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^f OFFICE NATIONAL DE LA CHASSE ET DE LA FAUNE SAUVAGE   (France)

Author keywords

ageing; capture reencounter; competing risk analysis; frailty; harvest; heterogeneity; hidden Markov model; predation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992428932     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12239     Document Type: Article

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