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Age‐structure and longevity of Common lizard ( Lacerta vivipara ) populations
Author(s) -
AVERY R. A.
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
journal of zoology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.915
H-Index - 96
eISSN - 1469-7998
pISSN - 0952-8369
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1975.tb03221.x
Subject(s) - biology , longevity , survivorship curve , census , lizard , demography , zoology , ecology , population , genetics , cancer , sociology
Survivorship of L. vivipara in the field was estimated from visual census of the age‐composition of two populations. There was approximately 90% mortality in the first year of life; but the mean expectation of life of an individual which survived to its first birthday was then between four and five years.