Identifying environmental determinants of diurnal distribution in marine birds and mammals

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 467-482

  Henson, Shandelle M ^a   Hayward, James L ^a   Damania, Smruti P ^a  

^a ANDREWS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Akaike Information Criterion; Animal behavior; Differential equation model; Environmental forcing; Time scale analysis

Indexed keywords

AVES; MAMMALIA;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; CHARADRIIFORMES; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; MAMMAL; PHOCA; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRDS; CHARADRIIFORMES; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; MAMMALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOCA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33746599091     PISSN: 00928240     EISSN: 15229602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11538-005-9009-0     Document Type: Article

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