Male turnover reduces population growth: An enclosure experiment on voles

Ecology

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 88-94

  Andreassen, Harry P ^a   Gundersen, Gry ^b  

^a INLAND NORWAY UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bruce effect; Extrinsic vs. intrinsic factors; Infanticide; Male turnover; Microtus oeconomus; Population crash phase; Population cycles; Predation; Removal experiment; Root vole; Social disruption

Indexed keywords

MALE; POPULATION CYCLE; POPULATION GROWTH; PREDATION; SMALL MAMMAL; TURNOVER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARVICOLINAE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; LACTATION; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION MIGRATION; PREDATION; RANDOMIZATION; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; FEMALE; LACTATION; MALE; POPULATION GROWTH; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

MICROTUS OECONOMUS; MURIDAE;

EID: 33644837534     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: 00129658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/04-1574     Document Type: Article

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