Spatially coupled larval supply of marine predators and their prey alters the predictions of metapopulation models

American Naturalist

Volumn 171, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  White, J Wilson ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Metapopulation; Predator prey interactions; Source sink dynamics; Spatially coupled dispersal

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; FOOD SUPPLY; LARVAL SETTLEMENT; LARVAL TRANSPORT; MARINE PARK; METAPOPULATION; POPULATION MODELING; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS; SUBPOPULATION; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOOD CHAIN; LARVA; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEA; WATER FLOW;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; LARVA; MARINE BIOLOGY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 42549089341     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/587079     Document Type: Article

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