Noise and determinism in synchronized sheep dynamics

Nature

Volumn 394, Issue 6694, 1998, Pages 674-677

  Grenfell, B T ^a   Wilson, K ^b   Finkenstadt B F ^a   Coulson, T N ^c   Murray, S ^d   Albon, S D ^e   Pemberton, J M ^f   Clutton Brock, T H ^a   Crawley, M J ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^c ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d SCOTTISH NATURAL HERITAGE   (United Kingdom)

^e CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^g IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING; SYNCHRONY; TIME SERIES;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FETUS; MORTALITY; NOISE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0032514553     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/29291     Document Type: Article

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