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Titre :	Measuring female aggregation in ungulate mating-system research: a red deer case study
Auteurs :	Javier Perez-Gonzalez, Auteur ; Juan Carranza, Auteur ; Vicente Polo, Auteur
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	Wildlife Research (37(4) 2010)
Article en page(s) :	301-310
Langues:	Anglais
Résumé :	Context. Mating systems are of central importance to the operation of sexual selection, with consequences for evolution and for the maintenance of genetic diversity. Female aggregation is one of the most important elements of mating systems because female distribution can influence the degree of polygyny. Measuring female aggregation requires finding the scale for the distribution pattern. Several spatial methods can be used to determine the scale of a point pattern; however, only one of them has been applied to mating-system research. Aims. Here, we assess three different spatial methods to determine the best one in finding the scale of female distribution for female-aggregation measures in a mating-system context. Methods. We describe and compare the spatial methods by applying them to

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