Socially induced red grouse population cycles need abrupt transitions between tolerance and aggression

Ecology

Volumn 86, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1883-1893

  Matthiopoulos, Jason ^a   Halley, John M ^b   Moss, Robert ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aggressive behavior; Density dependence; Intrinsic hypotheses; Kinship hypothesis; Lagopus lagopus scoticus; Mathematical model; Necessary and sufficient conditions for instability; Population cycles; Red Grouse; Territoriality; Unstable population dynamics

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; GAMEBIRD; POPULATION CYCLE; POPULATION MODELING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TERRITORIALITY;

AVES; LAGOPUS LAGOPUS SCOTICUS; PHASIANIDAE;

EID: 21744449835     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/04-0253     Document Type: Article

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