Of sheep and rain: Large-scale population dynamics of the red kangaroo

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 22-30

  Jonzén, Niclas ^a,b   Pople, Anthony R ^a   Grigg, Gordon C ^a   Possingham, Hugh P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Consumer resource dynamics; Environmental stochasticity; Herbivores; Population dynamics spatial correlation; Spatial correlation; Time series analyses

Indexed keywords

HERBIVORE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MARSUPIAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; WORLD;

BOS TAURUS; MACROPODIDAE; MACROPUS RUFUS; MACROPUS SP.; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 13844261300     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2005.00915.x     Document Type: Article

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