Population growth rates: Issues and an application

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 357, Issue 1425, 2002, Pages 1307-1319

  Godfray, H Charles J ^a   Rees, Mark ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Integral projection; Life history; Population dynamics; Population regulation

Indexed keywords

GROWTH RATE; LIFE HISTORY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION REGULATION;

PRIMULA;

EID: 0037195017     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2002.1131     Document Type: Article

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