Life-history variation predicts the effects of demographic stochasticity on avian population dynamics

American Naturalist

Volumn 164, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 793-802

  Sæther, Bernt Erik ^a   Engen, Steinar ^a   Møller, Anders Pape ^b   Weimerskirch, Henri ^c   Visser, Marcel E ^d   Fiedler, Wolfgang ^e   Matthysen, Erik ^f   Lambrechts, Marcel M ^b   Badyaev, Alexander ^g   Becker, Peter H ^h   Brommer, Jon E ⁱ   Bukacinski, Dariusz ^j   Bukacinska, Monika ^j   Christensen, Hans ^k   Dickinson, Janis ^l   Du Feu, Chris ^d   Gehlbach, Frederick R ^m   Heg, Dik ^n,t   Hötker, Hermann ^o   Merilä, Juha ⁱ   Nielsen, Jan Tøttrup ^p   Rendell, Wallace ^q   Robertson, Raleigh J ^r   Thomson, David L ^d   Török, János ^s   Van Hecke, Piet ^p   more..

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c Ctr Etud Biologiques de Chize CNRS   (France)

^d NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^e Max Planck Forschungsstelle F O   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^g University of Arizona   (United States)

^h INSTITUTE OF AVIAN RESEARCH VOGELWARTE HELGOLAND   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^j CENTRE FOR ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Poland)

^k Tved 107C   (Denmark)

^l UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^m BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^o Naturschutzbund Deutschland Inst F   (Germany)

^p Naturschutzbund Deutschland Inst F ^*  (Belgium)

^q Applied Sciences and Computing   (Canada)

^r QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^s EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^t UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

more..

Author keywords

Birds; Demographic stochasticity; Environmental stochasticity; Life history variation; Stochastic population dynamics

Indexed keywords

BIRD; LIFE HISTORY; NATURAL SELECTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; STOCHASTICITY;

AVES; GALLIFORMES;

EID: 19944428808     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/425371     Document Type: Article

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