title: Graphical and demographic synopsis of the captive cohort method for estimating population age structure in the wild.
abstract: The purpose of this paper is to complement the literature concerned with the captive cohort method for estimating age structure including (1) graphic techniques to visualize and thus better understand the underlying life table identity in which the age structure of a stationary population equals the time-to-death distribution of the individuals within it; (2) re-derive the basic model for estimating age structure in non-stationary population in demographic rather than statistical notation; and (3) describe a simplified method for estimating changes in the mean age of a wild population.
authors: Department of Entomology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA. jrcarey@ucdavis.edu
authors: James R
authors: JR
authors: Carey
authors: Hans-Georg
authors: HG
authors: Müller
authors: Jane-Ling
authors: JL
authors: Wang
authors: Nikos T
authors: NT
authors: Papadopoulos
authors: Alexandros
authors: A
authors: Diamantidis
authors: Nikos A
authors: NA
authors: Koulousis
mesh_terms: D017677:Age Distribution; D000818:Animals; D003710:Demography / Q000379:methods*; D007313:Insecta / Q000502:physiology*; D015993:Life Tables; D011157:Population Dynamics; D015996:Survival Rate