Cyclic Dynamics in a Simple Vertebrate Predator-Prey Community

Science

Volumn 302, Issue 5646, 2003, Pages 866-868

  Gilg, Olivier ^a,b   Hanski, Ilkka ^a   Sittler, Benoît ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b CENTRE DE BIOLOGIE ET DE GESTION DES POPULATIONS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; POPULATION STATISTICS; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

PREDATOR-PREY MODELS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ARCTIC TUNDRA; ARTICLE; DYNAMICS; FOOD; FOX; GREENLAND; NONHUMAN; OWL; PERIODICITY; POPULATION GROWTH; PREDATOR; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES; SURVIVAL; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; BIRDS; CARNIVORA; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; FOXES; GREENLAND; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SEASONS; STRIGIFORMES;

ALOPEX LAGOPUS; CANIDAE; DICROSTONYX TORQUATUS; MUSTELA ERMINEA; NYCTEA SCANDIACA; STRIGIFORMES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0242268942     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1087509     Document Type: Article

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