From arctic lemmings to adaptive dynamics: Charles elton’s legacy in population ecology

Biological Reviews

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 129-158

  lindstrÖm, Jan ^a   Ranta, Esa ^b   Kokko, Hanna ^a   Lundberg, Per ^c   Kaitala, Veijo ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Climate; Cyclicity; Density dependence; Ecological hypothesis; Ecological theory; Elton; History of population ecology; Population dynamics; Population ecology; Population fluctuations; Spatial ecology; Trophic interactions

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; HYPOTHESIS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REVIEW; THEORY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; BIOLOGY; CARNIVORA; CLIMATE; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; LAGOMORPHA; MAMMALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PORTRAITS;

ANIMALIA; DICROSTONYX TORQUATUS; LEPUS; LYNX; MURIDAE;

EID: 0035097018     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: 1469185X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.2000.tb00061.x     Document Type: Article

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