Environmental stochasticity and extinction risk in a population of a small songbird, the great tit

American Naturalist

Volumn 151, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 441-450

  Sæther, Bernt Erik ^a   Engen, Steinar ^a   Islam, Aminul ^a   McCleery, Robin ^b   Perrins, Christopher ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Density dependence; Environmental stochasticity; Extinction; Great tit; Population viability; Stochastic population models

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL STOCHASTICITY; EXTINCTION RISK;

ENGLAND; OXFORDSHIRE; UK; WYTHAM WOOD;

PARUS MAJOR;

EID: 0031945365     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/286131     Document Type: Article

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