Viability in a pink environment: Why 'white noise' models can be dangerous

Ecology Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 228-232

  Morales, Juan Manuel ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

1 f noise; Environmental variation; Extinction risk; Population dynamics; Population viability analysis; Red noise

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032805415     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.1999.00074.x     Document Type: Article

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