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dc.contributor.authorSauer, John R.
dc.contributor.authorSlade, Norman A.
dc.date.accessioned2015-06-01T19:56:46Z
dc.date.available2015-06-01T19:56:46Z
dc.date.issued1987-06-01
dc.identifier.citationSauer, 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.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/17940
dc.description.abstractWe 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.publisherEcological Society of Americaen_US
dc.rightsCopyright by the Ecological Society of America
dc.subjectBody massen_US
dc.subjectDemographyen_US
dc.subjectGround squirrelsen_US
dc.subjectPopulation ecologyen_US
dc.subjectSpermophilusen_US
dc.titleUinta Ground Squirrel Demography: Is Body Mass a Better Categorical Variable Than Age?en_US
dc.typeArticle
kusw.kuauthorSauer, John R.
kusw.kuauthorSlade, Norman A.
kusw.kudepartmentNatural History Museumen_US
kusw.kudepartmentEcology and Evolutionary Biologyen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.2307/1938469
kusw.oaversionScholarly/refereed, publisher version
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