The long-term temporal variability and spectral colour of animal populations

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1033-1048

  Inchausti, Pablo ^a,c   Halley, John ^b  

^a NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

Autocorrelation; Conservation; Extinction; Fractal; Noise; Spectral colour; Temporal variability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037702619     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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