Modeling the demography of species providing extended parental care: A capture-recapture approach with a case study on Polar Bears (Ursus maritimus) ...

• Main Author: Cubaynes, Sarah
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2021
• Subjects: FOS Biological sciences; ursus maritim; Svalbard; multi-event capture-mark-recapture; female parental care; Barents Sea; Stirling; Ursus maritimus
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.fn2z34tsq; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.fn2z34tsq

1. In species providing extended parental care, one or both parents care for altricial young over a period including more than one breeding season. We expect large parental investment and long-term dependency within family units to cause high variability in life trajectories among individuals with c...