Population cycles in voles and lemmings: Density dependence and phase dependence in a stochastic world

Oikos

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 427-461

  Stenseth, Nils Chr ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY DEPENDENCE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RODENT;

MURIDAE; RODENTIA;

EID: 0033390298     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546809     Document Type: Article

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