Simple assumptions on age composition lead to erroneous conclusions on the nature of density dependence in age-structured populations

Oecologia

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 349-355

  Zabel, Richard W ^a   Levin, Phillip S ^a  

^a NORTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinook salmon; Population modeling; Population regulation; Resource management; Time series data

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION REGULATION; SALMONID; TIME SERIES;

ONCORHYNCHUS; ONCORHYNCHUS TSHAWYTSCHA; SALMONIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036942021     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-002-1051-0     Document Type: Article

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