Predicting extinction risk in spite of predator-prey oscillations

Ecological Applications

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1543-1554

  Sabo, John L ^a   Gerber, Leah R ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corrupted diffusion approximation; Extinction; Parameter estimation; Population cycles; Population viability analysis; Predator prey; Projection matrix; Species interactions; Stage structure; Stochasticity; Time series; Vital rate

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; DEMOGRAPHY; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXTINCTION RISK; POPULATION CYCLE; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; STOCHASTICITY; TIME SERIES;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORECASTING; HUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPECIES EXTINCTION; STATISTICS; TIME;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34848909387     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-0630.1     Document Type: Article

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