Community extinction patterns in coloured environments

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 275, Issue 1644, 2008, Pages 1775-1783

  Ruokolainen, Lasse ^a   Fowler, Mike S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Competition; Disturbance severity; Environmental variation; Extinction risk; Noise colour; Population synchrony

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EXTINCTION; EXTINCTION RISK; POPULATION SIZE; SYNCHRONY;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SIMULATION; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

EID: 45249084971     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.0193     Document Type: Article

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