Appendix B. Variance of juvenile (Vj) and adult (Va) survival and variance ratio from studies in which exact measures of sampling variance of individual point estimates were available.
|
Population
|
VJ (×100)
|
VA (×100)
|
Variance
ratio
|
REF
|
| Caribou |
0.00
|
0.10
|
…
|
…
|
| Bighorn 1 |
4.08
|
0.00
|
…
|
…
|
| Bighorn 2 |
1.33
|
0.11
|
12.09
|
3.10
|
| Roe deer 1 |
0.81
|
0.10
|
8.10
|
3.91
|
| Roe deer 2 |
4.13
|
0.13
|
31.77
|
9.63
|
| Moose |
1.16
|
0.00
|
…
|
…
|
| Mountain goat |
0.98
|
0.02
|
49.00
|
3.849
|
Notes: The variance ratio calculated without accounting for sampling variation (REF) is given for comparison. In all cases, accounting for sampling variation led to increase markedly the variance ratio (from twofold to twelvefold).