Local population size in a flightless insect: Importance of patch structure-dependent mortality

Ecology

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 634-647

  Yoo, Ho Jung S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Image analysis; Local patch density; Logistic and Poisson regression; Orgyia vetusta; Patch size; Spatially explicit simulation; Stage structured population models

Indexed keywords

DENSITY DEPENDENCE; DISPERSAL; HABITAT STRUCTURE; INSECT; MOTH; PARASITISM; PATCH SIZE; POPULATION ECOLOGY; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION SIZE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CAUSE OF DEATH; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIFE CYCLE; MALE; MOTH; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION;

ANIMALS; CAUSE OF DEATH; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FERTILITY; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTHS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

CHALCIDIDAE; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; LYMANTRIIDAE; ORGYIA VETUSTA;

EID: 33646143792     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: 00129658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/05-0509     Document Type: Article

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