The effect of habitat size and predation on the time to extinction of prairie vole populations: Simulation studies via SERDYCA

Ecological Complexity

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 35-57

  Kostova, Tanya ^a   Carlsen, Tina ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Individual based; Microtus ochrogaster; Multiannual fluctuations; Patch size; Population persistence; Spatially explicit

Indexed keywords

MICROTUS OCHROGASTER; MURIDAE; OCHROGASTER; RODENTIA;

EID: 12544252596     PISSN: 1476945X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2004.08.003     Document Type: Article

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