Testing for source-sink population dynamics: An experimental approach exemplified with desert annuals

Oikos

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 417-429

  Kadmon, Ronen ^a   Tielbörger, Katja ^a,b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL PLANT; DESERT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS;

EID: 0345426290     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546647     Document Type: Article

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