Avian life history variation and contribution of demographic traits to the population growth rate

Ecology

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 642-653

  Sæther, Bernt Erik ^a   Bakke, Øyvind ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Birds; Demography; Elasticity analysis; Life history variation; Perturbation analysis; Population dynamics; Population growth rate; Projection matrix model; Temporal variation

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; DEMOGRAPHY; GROWTH RATE; LIFE HISTORY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH;

AVES; GALLIFORMES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033946940     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2000)081[0642:alhvac]2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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