Linear analysis solves two puzzles in population dynamics: The route to extinction and extinction in coloured environments

Ecology Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 219-222

  Ripa, Jörgen ^a   Heino, Mikko ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Division of Systematic Biology   (Finland)

Author keywords

Autocorrelation; Environmental stochasticity; Extinction risk; Linear models; Stochastic population dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032774266     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.1999.00073.x     Document Type: Article

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