Variable performance of individuals: The role of population density and endogenously formed landscape heterogeneity

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 725-735

  Pfister, Catherine A ^a   Peacor, Scott D ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NOAA GREAT LAKES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumer resource interactions; Growth autocorrelation; Individual variation; Individual based model; Limpets; Patchiness; Tectura scutum

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; HETEROGENEITY; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODEL; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; POPULATION DENSITY;

PATELLIDAE; SCUTUM; TECTURA SCUTUM;

EID: 0042196325     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2656.2003.00742.x     Document Type: Article

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