Acorn mast drives long-term dynamics of rodent and songbird populations

Oecologia

Volumn 154, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 493-503

  Clotfelter, Ethan D ^a   Pedersen, Amy B ^b   Cranford, Jack A ^c   Ram, Nilam ^d   Snajdr, Eric A ^e   Nolan Jr , Val ^e   Ketterson, Ellen D ^e  

^a AMHERST COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dark eyed junco; Peromyscus; Quercus; Raptor; Resource pulse; Weather

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; JUVENILE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION ESTIMATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAPTOR; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RODENT; SONGBIRD; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TROPHIC CASCADE; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; OAK; PEROMYSCUS; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; RODENT; SONGBIRD; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PEROMYSCUS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; QUERCUS; REPRODUCTION; RODENTIA; SONGBIRDS; TIME FACTORS;

APPALACHIANS; NORTH AMERICA;

JUNCO (AVES); JUNCO HYEMALIS; PASSERI; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS; QUERCUS; QUERCUS ALBA; QUERCUS RUBRA; RAPTORES; RODENTIA;

EID: 36448954314     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-007-0859-z     Document Type: Article

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