Density-dependent recruitment in grassland small mammals

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 57-65

  Reed, Aaron W ^a   Slade, Norman A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Immigration; Peromyscus; Population regulation; Reithrodontomys

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FECUNDITY; GRASSLAND; IMMIGRATION; NESTLING; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION REGULATION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); RODENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LITTER SIZE; MALE; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; PREGNANCY; RODENT; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; FERTILITY; LITTER SIZE; MALE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; PREGNANCY; RODENTIA; SURVIVAL;

KANSAS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

MAMMALIA; MICROTUS OCHROGASTER; MURIDAE; PEROMYSCUS; REITHRODONTOMYS; RODENTIA; SIGMODON; SIGMODON HISPIDUS;

EID: 37349112137     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2007.01327.x     Document Type: Article

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