Availability of food and the population dynamics of arvicoline rodents

Ecology

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1521-1534

  Turchin, Peter ^a   Batzli, George O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumer resource interactions; Herbivore plant interactions, mathematical models; Lemmings; Logistic growth vs. linear growth, dynamical results; Modeling population dynamics; Population cycles in arvicotine (microtine) rodents; Rodents, arvicotine; Small mammal population dynamics and food supply; Tritrophic interactions; Voles

Indexed keywords

FOOD AVAILABILITY; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RODENT;

ALASKA; POINT BARROW; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034955390     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2001)082[1521:AOFATP]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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