The effect of density dependence and weather on population size of a polyvoltine species

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 571-594

  Lewellen, Ruth H ^a   Vessey, Stephen H ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abiotic factors; Density dependence and density independence; Drought; Forecasting; Intervention analysis; Long term data set; Multivariate time series analysis; Peromyscus leucopus; Polyvoltine; Seasonal analysis; Time scale; Transfer function analysis; Univoltine; Weather

Indexed keywords

DENSITY DEPENDENCE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING; RODENT; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WEATHER;

PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS;

EID: 0031787994     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9615(1998)068[0571:TEODDA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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