When Celibacy Matters: Incorporating Non-Breeders Improves Demographic Parameter Estimates
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When Celibacy Matters: Incorporating Non-Breeders Improves Demographic Parameter Estimates
In long-lived species only a fraction of a population breeds at a given time. Non-breeders can represent more than half of adult individuals, calling in doubt the relevance of estimating demographic parameters from the sole breeders. Here we demonstrate the importance of considering observable non-breeders to estimate reliable demographic traits: survival, return, breeding, hatching and fledgin...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS ONE
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060389