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Why you should use capture-recapture methods when estimating survival and breeding probabilities: on bias, temporary emigration, overdispersion, and common toads

Why you should use capture-recapture methods when estimating survival and breeding probabilities:... Forum Why you should use capture-recapture methods when estimating survival and breeding probabilities: on bias, temporary emigration, overdispersion, and common toads Benedikt R. Schmidt 1 , Michael Schaub 2,3 , Bradley R. Anholt 4 1 Zoologisches Institut, University of Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland e-mail: bschmidt@zool.unizh.ch 2 CEFE/CNRS, 1919 Route de Mende, F-34293 Montpellier Cedex 5, France 3 Present address: Zoologisches Institut, Division of Conservation Biology, University of Bern, Baltzerstrasse 6, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland 4 Department of Biology, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 3020 STN CSC, Victoria BC V8W 3N5, Canada The global decline of amphibians (Blaustein and Wake, 1990; Houlahan et al., 2000) has created an urgent need to better understand amphibian population dynamics (Meyer et al., 1998; Wake, 1998). Measuring basic demographic parameters, such as survival probabilities, is essential to parameterize population models (e.g., Halley et al., 1996; GrifŽ ths and Williams, 2000; Fujiwara and Caswell, 2001). In recent years, estimation of survival probabilities based on capture-recapture (herafter CR) has made enormous progress and these methods are currently the most reliable (e.g., Burnham et al., 1987; Pollock et al., 1990; Lebreton et al., 1992; Buckland et al., 2000). So many additional population and community parameters can http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Amphibia-Reptilia Brill

Why you should use capture-recapture methods when estimating survival and breeding probabilities: on bias, temporary emigration, overdispersion, and common toads

Schmidt, Benedikt; Schaub, Michael; Anholt, Bradley
Amphibia-Reptilia , Volume 23 (3): 14 – Jan 1, 2002
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Forum Why you should use capture-recapture methods when estimating survival and breeding probabilities: on bias, temporary emigration, overdispersion, and common toads Benedikt R. Schmidt 1 , Michael Schaub 2,3 , Bradley R. Anholt 4 1 Zoologisches Institut, University of Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland e-mail: bschmidt@zool.unizh.ch 2 CEFE/CNRS, 1919 Route de Mende, F-34293 Montpellier Cedex 5, France 3 Present address: Zoologisches Institut, Division of Conservation Biology, University of Bern, Baltzerstrasse 6, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland 4 Department of Biology, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 3020 STN CSC, Victoria BC V8W 3N5, Canada The global decline of amphibians (Blaustein and Wake, 1990; Houlahan et al., 2000) has created an urgent need to better understand amphibian population dynamics (Meyer et al., 1998; Wake, 1998). Measuring basic demographic parameters, such as survival probabilities, is essential to parameterize population models (e.g., Halley et al., 1996; GrifŽ ths and Williams, 2000; Fujiwara and Caswell, 2001). In recent years, estimation of survival probabilities based on capture-recapture (herafter CR) has made enormous progress and these methods are currently the most reliable (e.g., Burnham et al., 1987; Pollock et al., 1990; Lebreton et al., 1992; Buckland et al., 2000). So many additional population and community parameters can

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