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Identifying population units that comply with capture-recapture assumptions in an open community of alpine grasshoppers

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Researches on Population Ecology

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Population units which are homogeneous with respect to capture-recapture assumptions are identified by applying 11 contingency table tests to grasshopper data according to various site, species, growth stage and sex groupings. The results of 2337 contingency table analyses have permitted a definition of the biological, spatial and temporal characteristics of those groupings which were found to be homogeneous. The same analyses suggest that dispersal rates and dispersal patterns pose the greatest single difficulty in defining population homogeneity within an open community. The effects of failures in capture-recapture assumptions are discussed in relation toJolly’s 1965 stochastic model.

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White, E.G. Identifying population units that comply with capture-recapture assumptions in an open community of alpine grasshoppers. Res Popul Ecol 16, 153–187 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02511058

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