Relating individual behaviour to population dynamics

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 268, Issue 1470, 2001, Pages 925-932

  Sumpter, D J T ^a,b   Broomhead, D S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Individual based modelling; Logistic equation; Population dynamics; Varroa jacobsoni

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODEL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ECOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MITE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 0035820849     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2001.1604     Document Type: Article

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