Model complexity and population predictions. The alpine marmot as a case study

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 343-361

  Stephens, Philip A ^a   Frey roos, Fredy ^b   Arnold, Walter ^b   Sutherland, Wlliam J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b Forschungsinstitut für Wildtierkunde und Ökologie   (Austria)

Author keywords

Allee effects; Behaviour based models; Density dependence; Individual based models; Matrix models

Indexed keywords

ALLEE EFFECT; BEHAVIOR; COMPLEXITY; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODEL; POPULATION MODELING;

GERMANY;

MARMOTA; MARMOTA MARMOTA MARMOTA; SCIURIDAE;

EID: 0036117876     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2656.2002.00605.x     Document Type: Article

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