Density dependence: Are we searching at the wrong spatial scale?

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 556-566

  Ray, Chris ^a   Hastings, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

dispersal; insects; key factor analysis; metapopulation dynamics; structured populations

Indexed keywords

DENSITY DEPENDENCE; INSECT POPULATION; METAPOPULATION; SCALE; SPATIAL STRUCTURE;

EID: 0030304897     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/5736     Document Type: Article

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