Sensitivity to assumptions in models of generalist predation on a cyclic prey

Ecology

Volumn 88, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2576-2586

  Matthiopoulos, Jason ^a   Graham, Kate ^b   Smout, Sophie ^a   Asseburg, Christian ^a   Redpath, Stephen ^c   Thirgood, Simon ^b,d   Hudson, Peter ^b,e   Harwood, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregative response; Birds of prey; Circus cyaneus; Host parasite; Intrinsic population cycles; Monte Carlo Markov chain; Multispecies functional response; Parameter uncertainty; Predator prey model; Prey switching; Stochasticity; Territoriality

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; PASSERINE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; RAPTOR; RODENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

ANTHUS PRATENSIS; AVES; CIRCUS CYANEUS; LAGOPUS LAGOPUS SCOTICUS; MICROTUS AGRESTIS; MURIDAE; RAPTORES; TETRAONIDAE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARVICOLINAE; BIRD; ECOSYSTEM; FALCONIFORMES; FOOD CHAIN; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; PROBABILITY; TOAD;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; BIRDS; ECOSYSTEM; FALCONIFORMES; FOOD CHAIN; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MARKOV CHAINS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PIPIDAE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

EID: 38449116442     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-0483.1     Document Type: Article

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