Complex population dynamics in the real world: Modeling the influence of time-varying parameters and time lags

Ecology

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 2193-2209

  Zeng, Zheng ^a   Nowierski, Robert M ^a   Taper, Mark L ^a   Dennis, Brian ^b   Kemp, William P ^c  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^c UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex population dynamics; Density dependence; Gompertz model; Information criterion; Kalman filter; Maximum likelihood function; Nonlinear density dependence; Nonlinear time series; Population regulation; Ricker model; Second order model; Time varying parameters

Indexed keywords

POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING; TIME SERIES;

EID: 0031670568     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1998)079[2193:CPDITR]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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