Contrasting alternative hypotheses about rodent cycles by translating them into parameterized models

Ecology Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 267-276

  Turchin, Peter ^a   Hanski, Ilkka ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Arvicoline (microtine) rodents; Consumer resource interactions; Herbivore plant interactions; Maternal effects; Mathematical models; Population cycles; Predator prey oscillations

Indexed keywords

FOOD AVAILABILITY; MATERNAL EFFECT; POPULATION CYCLE; POPULATION MODELING; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RODENT;

EID: 0034983075     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2001.00204.x     Document Type: Article

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