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SUBMITTER: Guimaraes M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3995933 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Guimarães Murilo M Munguía-Steyer Roberto R Doherty Paul F PF Martins Marcio M Sawaya Ricardo J RJ
PloS one 20140422 4
Little is known about vital rates of snakes generally because of the difficulty in collecting data. Here we used a robust design mark-recapture model to estimate survival, behavioral effects on capture probability, temporary emigration, abundance and test the hypothesis of population decline in the golden lancehead pitviper, Bothrops insularis, an endemic and critically endangered species from southeastern Brazil. We collected data at irregular intervals over ten occasions from 2002 to 2010. Sur ...[more]