J. Clobert et al., THE ESTIMATION OF AGE-SPECIFIC BREEDING PROBABILITIES FROM RECAPTURESOR RESIGHTINGS IN VERTEBRATE POPULATIONS .2. LONGITUDINAL MODELS, Biometrics, 50(2), 1994, pp. 375-387
We provide a statistical framework to estimate age-specific breeding p
robabilities in vertebrate populations, from recaptures or resightings
of individuals marked as young. We consider data collected at one or
possibly several points over time, when individual recapture histories
are known, leading to models which we call longitudinal models. An ex
ample of resightings of black-headed gulls, Larus ridibundus, is consi
dered.