Synchrony and scaling in dynamics of voles and mice in northern Japan

Ecology

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 622-637

  Bjørnstad, Ottar N ^a,c   Stenseth, Nils Chr ^a   Saitoh, Takashi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

Apodemus speciosus; Bootstrapping; Clethrionomys rufocanus; Hokkaido; Nonparametric covariance function; Rodents; Scale of regulation; Spatial correlogram

Indexed keywords

POPULATION DYNAMICS; RODENT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SYNCHRONY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

HOKKAIDO; JAPAN;

APODEMUS SPECIOSUS; CLETHRIONOMYS RUFOCANUS;

EID: 0033021406     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1999)080[0622:SASIDO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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