Full-annual demography and seasonal cycles in a resident vertebrate.

ABSTRACT: Wildlife demography is typically studied at a single point in time within a year when species, often during the reproductive season, are more active and therefore easier to find. However, this provides only a low-resolution glimpse into demographic temporal patterns over time and may hamper a more complete understanding of the population dynamics of a species over the full annual cycle. The full annual cycle is often influenced by environmental seasonality, which induces a cyclic behavior in many species. However, cycles have rarely been explicitly included in models for demographic parameters, and most information on full annual cycle demography is restricted to migratory species. Here we used a high-resolution capture-recapture study of a resident tropical lizard to assess the full intra

SUBMITTER: Guimaraes M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7047866 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature