Dispersal and spatial scale affect synchrony in spatial population dynamics

Ecology Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 114-120

  Paradis, Emmanuel ^a,b,c   Baillie, Stephen R ^a   Sutherland, William J ^b   Gregory, Richard D ^a  

^a THE NUNNERY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Population trend; Spatial populations; Spatial scale; Synchrony

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032967625     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.1999.22060.x     Document Type: Article

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