Why do populations cycle? A synthesis of statistical and mechanistic modeling approaches

Ecology

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1789-1805

  Kendall, Bruce E ^a,b   Briggs, Cheryl J ^b,g   Murdoch, William W ^a,b   Turchin, Peter ^c   Ellner, Stephen P ^d   Mccauley, Edward ^e   Nisbet, Roger M ^b   Wood, Simon N ^f  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^d NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Blowflies; Density dependence; Fitting mechanistic models to time series data; Inverse problem; Lucilia cuprina; Mechanistic population models; Modeling population cycles; Population cycles, determining the causes of; Statistical time series analysis; Structured population models; Time series models

Indexed keywords

POPULATION CYCLE; POPULATION MODELING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES;

CALLIPHORIDAE; LUCILIA CUPRINA;

EID: 0032849169     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1999)080[1789:WDPCAS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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