Combining stochastic models with experiments to understand the dynamics of monarch butterfly colonization

American Naturalist

Volumn 166, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 731-750

  Drury, Kevin L S ^a,b   Dwyer, Greg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Akaike Information Criterion; Asclepias syriaca; Danaus plexippus; Density dependent immigration; Density dependent mortality; Stochastic model

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; COLONIZATION; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; ASCLEPIAS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BUTTERFLY; CATERING SERVICE; EGG LAYING; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; ASCLEPIAS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BUTTERFLIES; FEMALE; FOOD SUPPLY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OVIPOSITION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

ASCLEPIAS; ASCLEPIAS SYRIACA; DANAUS PLEXIPPUS;

EID: 28844438277     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/497542     Document Type: Article

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