Behaviourally structured populations persist longer under harsh environmental conditions

Ecology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 455-462

  Petrovskii, Sergei V ^a   Blackshaw, Rod P ^b  

^a SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aggression; Behaviour; Habitat fragmentation; Harsh environmental conditions; Population persistence

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; BEHAVIOR; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; PERSISTENCE; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 0037721408     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2003.00451.x     Document Type: Article

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