Estimating the magnitude of environmental stochasticity in survivorship data

Ecological Applications

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 184-193

  Kendall, Bruce E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Acorn Woodpecker; Demographic stochasticity; Density dependence; Environmental stochasticity; Melanerpes formicivorus; Stochastic population modeling; Survivorship

Indexed keywords

ACORN WOODPECKER; ENVIRONMENTAL STOCHASTICITY; EXTINCTION RISK; POPULATION VIABILITY; SURVIVORSHIP;

MELANERPES FORMICIVORUS;

EID: 0031905181     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(1998)008[0184:ETMOES]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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