Seasonal Forcing on the Dynamics of Clethrionomys rufocanus: Modeling Geographic Gradients in Population Dynamics

Researches on Population Ecology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 85-95

  Stenseth, Nils Chr ^a,b   Bjørnstad, Ottar N ^a   Saitoh, Takashi ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b Det Norske Videnskaps Akademi   (Norway)

^c FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Density dependence; Length of summer and winter; Phenomenological model; Seasonal and annual dynamics; The gray sided vole

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002314631     PISSN: 00345466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02765224     Document Type: Article

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