Living on the edge of chaos: Population dynamics of fennoscandian voles

Ecology

Volumn 81, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 3099-3116

  Turchin, P ^a   Ellner, S P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Chaos; Lyapunov exponents; Nonlinear forecasting; Parameter estimation; Population dynamics; Quasi chaos; Rodent; Time series analysis; Voles

Indexed keywords

CHAOS THEORY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING; RODENT;

EUROPE; FENNOSCANDIA;

EID: 0033749210     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2000)081[3099:LOTEOC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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