Carrying capacity and demographic stochasticity: Scaling behavior of the stochastic logistic model

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 59-65

  Dushoff, Jonathan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CARRYING CAPACITY; PERSISTENCE; POPULATION MODELING; STOCHASTICITY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0034065343     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/tpbi.1999.1434     Document Type: Article

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