Scaling up population dynamics: Integrating theory and data

Oecologia

Volumn 145, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 179-187

  Melbourne, Brett A ^a   Chesson, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterogeneity; Nonlinear dynamics; Scale; Spatial ecology

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER;

CADDISFLY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SCALE EFFECT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; INSECT; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; INSECTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 26444523562     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-005-0058-8     Document Type: Article

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