Breeding suppression and predator-prey dynamics

Ecology

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 252-260

  Kokko, Hanna ^a,b   Ruxton, Graeme D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Division of Population Biology   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antipredatory behavior; Behavioral mechanism; Breeding suppression; Cyclicity; Density dependence; Population dynamics; Predation; Predator prey dynamics; Survival; Vole

Indexed keywords

DENSITY DEPENDENCE; OPTIMIZATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY;

EID: 0033950049     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2000)081[0252:BSAPPD]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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