Complex numerical responses to top-down and bottom-up processes in vertebrate populations

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 357, Issue 1425, 2002, Pages 1221-1231

  Sinclair, A R E ^a   Krebs, Charles J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Food supply; Population growth rate; Predation; Social behaviour

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM-UP CONTROL; DISTURBANCE; FOOD SUPPLY; POPULATION GROWTH; PREDATION; TOP-DOWN CONTROL; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALIA; METATHERIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; UNGULATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037195013     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2002.1123     Document Type: Article

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