dc.contributor.author | Sauer, John R. | |
dc.contributor.author | Slade, Norman A. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-06-01T19:56:46Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-06-01T19:56:46Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1987-06-01 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Sauer, John R.; Slade, Norman A. (1987). "Uinta Ground Squirrel Demography: Is Body Mass a Better Categorical Variable Than Age?" Ecology, 68(3):642-650. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1938469. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/17940 | |
dc.description.abstract | We compared the relative impact of age and body mass on fecundity and survival in a population of Uinta ground squirrels, and modeled the population using bodymass classes as stage categories in Lefkovitch stage transition matrices. Body mass was a better predictor of survival than was age, and was nearly as good a predictor of litter size. Mass-based stage transition matrices provided results similar to age-based transition matrices, but also indicated that larger and subsequently more fecund young were a consequence of a population reduction. We believe that mass-based analysis of ground squirrel populations is a viable alternative to traditional age-based analyses. Body mass is easy to measure in small-mammal populations and is linked to a variety of life-history characteristics. | en_US |
dc.publisher | Ecological Society of America | en_US |
dc.rights | Copyright by the Ecological Society of America | |
dc.subject | Body mass | en_US |
dc.subject | Demography | en_US |
dc.subject | Ground squirrels | en_US |
dc.subject | Population ecology | en_US |
dc.subject | Spermophilus | en_US |
dc.title | Uinta Ground Squirrel Demography: Is Body Mass a Better Categorical Variable Than Age? | en_US |
dc.type | Article | |
kusw.kuauthor | Sauer, John R. | |
kusw.kuauthor | Slade, Norman A. | |
kusw.kudepartment | Natural History Museum | en_US |
kusw.kudepartment | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.2307/1938469 | |
kusw.oaversion | Scholarly/refereed, publisher version | |
kusw.oapolicy | This item does not meet KU Open Access policy criteria. | |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess | |