Environmental stochasticity and population dynamics of large herbivores: A search for mechanisms

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 143-149

  Sæther, Bernt Erik ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATIC CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL STOCHASTICITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STOCHASTICITY; UNGULATE;

EID: 0031113780     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(96)10068-9     Document Type: Review

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