Predicting nonlinear and non-additive effects of climate: The Alpine ibex revisited

Climate Research

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 129-135

  Lima, Mauricio ^a   Berryman, Alan ^b  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ibex; Lateral perturbations; Population dynamics; Theoretical models

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; ECOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; GOAT; GROWTH RATE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION STRUCTURE;

ANIMALIA; CAPRA IBEX; MAMMALIA; UNGULATA;

EID: 33750853570     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr032129     Document Type: Article

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