Testing for density dependence allowing for weather effects

Oecologia

Volumn 112, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 518-523

  Rothery, Peter ^a   Newton, Ian ^a   Dale, Lois ^a   Wesolowski, Tomasz ^b  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Autoregressive model; Butterfly and songbird populations; Density dependence; Statistical power; Weather effects

Indexed keywords

DENSITY DEPENDENCE; TIME-SERIES DATA; WEATHER;

EID: 0031435391     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050340     Document Type: Article

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