Demographic, mechanistic and density-dependent determinants of population growth rate: A case study in an avian predator

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 357, Issue 1425, 2002, Pages 1171-1177

  Hone, Jim ^a   Sibly, Richard M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Barn owl; Demography; Numerical response; Population growth rate; Predation

Indexed keywords

DENSITY DEPENDENCE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; POPULATION ECOLOGY; POPULATION GROWTH; PREDATOR; RAPTOR;

ANIMALIA; AVES; MICROTUS AGRESTIS; MURIDAE; RAPTORES; STRIGIFORMES; TYTO ALBA;

EID: 0037195015     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2002.1118     Document Type: Article

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