Can population growth rates vary with the spatial scale at which they are measured?

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 659-671

  Steen, Harald ^a,c   Haydon, Daniel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Bank voles; Extended low; Growth rate estimation; Lemmings; Neyman Scott cluster processes; Population cycles; Scale dependence; Snowshoe hares

Indexed keywords

CENSUS; ESTIMATION METHOD; GROWTH RATE; POPULATION GROWTH; SAMPLING BIAS; SCALE EFFECT;

EID: 0033885718     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2656.2000.00424.x     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Boonstra, R. & Singleton, G. R. (1993) Population declines in the snowshoe hare and the role of stress. General and Comparative Endocrinology, 91, 126-143.
2. Boonstra, R., Hik, D., Singleton, G.R. & Tinnikov, A. (1998a) The impact of predator-induced stress on the snowshoe hare cycle. Ecology Monographs, 79, 371-394.
3. Boonstra, R., Krebs, C.J. & Stenseth, N.C. (1998b) Population cycles in small mammals: the problem of explaining the low phase. Ecology, 79, 1479-1488.
4. Bondrup-Nielsen, S. & Karlsson, F. (1985) Movements and spatial patterns in populations of Clethrionomys species: a review. Annales Zoologici Fennici, 22, 385-392.
5. Charnov, E.L. & Finerty, J.P. (1980) Vole population cycles: a case for kin-selection. Oecologia, 45, 1-2.
6. Chitty, D. (1967) The natural selection of self-regulatory behavior in populations. Proceedings of the Ecological Society Australia, 2, 51-78.
7. Gillis, E.A. & Krebs, C.J. (1999) Natal dispersal of snowshoe hares during a cyclic population increase. Journal of Mammalogy, 80, 933-939.
8. Framstad, E., Stenseth, N.C. & Østbye, E. (1993) Demography of Lemmus lemmus through five population cycles. The Biology of Lemmings (eds N.C. Stenseth & R.A. Ims), pp. 116-133. Academic Press, London, UK.
9. Framstad, E., Stenseth, N.C., Bjørnstad, O.N. & Falck, W. (1997) Limit cycles in Norwegian lemmings: tension between phase-dependent and density dependence. Proceedings of the Royal Society London Series B, 246, 31-38.
10. Hansson, L. (1984) Predation as the factor causing extended low densities in microtine cycles. Oikos, 43, 255-256.
11. Haukioja, E., Kapiainen, K., Niemalä, P. & Tuomi, J. (1983) Plant availability hypothesis and other explanations of herbivore cycles: complementary or exclusive alternatives. Oikos, 40, 419-432.
12. Henttonen, H. (1985) Predation causing extended low densities in microtine cycles: further evidence from shrew dynamics. Oikos, 45, 156-157.
13. Henttonen, H., Oksanen, T., Jortikka, A. & Haukisalmi, V. (1987) How do weasels shape microtine cycles in northern Fennoscandia? Oikos, 50, 353-365.
14. Hik, D.S. (1995) Does risk of predation influence population dynamics? Evidence from the cyclic decline of snowshoe hares. Wildlife Research, 22, 115-129.
15. Ims, R.A. (1988) Spatial clumping of sexually receptive females induces space sharing among males (Clethrionomys rufocanus). Nature, 335, 541-543.
16. Keith, L.B. & Windberg, L.A. (1978) A demographic analysis of the snowshoe hare cycle. Wildlife Monographs, 58, 1-70.
17. Keith, I.M., Keith, L.B. & Cary, J.R. (1986) Parasitism in a declining population of snowshoe hares. Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 22, 349-363.
18. Korpimäki, E. & Krebs, C.J. (1996) Predation and population cycles of small mammals: a reassessment of the predation hypothesis. Bioscience, 46, 754-764.
19. Krebs, C.J., Boutin, S., Boonstra, R., Sinclair, A.R.E., Smith, J.N.M., Dale, M.R.T., Martin, K. & Turkington, R. (1995) Impact of food and predation on the snowshoe hare cycle. Science, 269, 1112-1115.
20. Krebs, C.J., Gilbert, B.S., Boutin, S., Sinclair, A.R.E. & Smith, J.N.M. (1986) Population biology of snowshoe hares. I. Demography of food-supplemented populations in the southern Yukon, 1976-1984. Journal of Animal Ecology, 55, 963-982.
21. Laine, K. & Henttonen, H. (1983) The role of plant production in microtine cycles in northern Fennoscandia. Oikos, 40, 407-418.
22. Lambin, X. (1994) Natal philopatry, competition for resources and inbreeding avoidance in Townsend's voles (Microtus townsendii). Ecology, 75, 224-235.
23. Lambin, X. & Krebs, C.J. (1991) Can changes in female relatedness influence microtine population dynamics. Oikos, 61, 126-132.
24. Maynard-Smith, J. & Stenseth, N.C. (1978) On the evolutionary stability of the female biased sex ratio in the wood lemming (Myopus schisticolor): the effect of inbreeding. Heredity, 41, 205-214.
25. Norrdahl, K. (1995) Population cycles in northern small mammals. Biological Reviews, 70, 621-637.
26. Pollock, K.H., Nichols, J.D., Brownie, C. & Hines, J.E. (1990) Statistical inference for capture-recapture experiments. Wildlife Monographs, 107, 1-97.
27. Smith, J.N.M., Krebs, C.J., Sinclair, A.R.E. & Boonstra, R. (1988) Population biology of snowshoe hare. II. Interactions with winter food plants. Journal of Animal Ecology, 57, 269-286.
28. Steen, H. (1994) Low survival of long distance dispersers of the root vole (Microtus oeconomus). Annales Zoologici Fennici, 31, 271-274.
29. Steen, H. (1995) Spatial aspects of population dynamics in small rodents. PhD Thesis. University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
30. Stoyan, D. & Stoyan, H. (1994) Fractals, Random Shapes and Point Fields. Methods of Geometrical Statistics. Wiley and Sons, New York, New York.