Territorial defense, territory size, and population regulation

American Naturalist

Volumn 166, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 317-329

  López Sepulcre, Andrés ^a,b   Kokko, Hanna ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Carrying capacity; Evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS); Floating; Intruder pressure; Population regulation; Territoriality

Indexed keywords

TERRITORIALITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; TERRITORIALITY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; TERRITORIALITY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 24644436835     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/432560     Document Type: Article

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