Detecting population-level consequences of ongoing environmental change without long-term monitoring

Ecology

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1537-1551

  Doak, Daniel F ^a   Morris, William ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Demographic modeling; Demography; Environmental change; Global change; Likelihood; Matrix; Population structure; Stochastic demography

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT;

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; POPULATION ECOLOGY;

EID: 0032855351     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1999)080[1537:DPLCOO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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