Incorporating environmental stochasticity within a biological population model

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 115-129

  Varughese, M M ^a   Fatti, L P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Ecology; Environment; Environmental stochasticity; Modelling; Population; Stochastic processes

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION SIZE; STOCHASTICITY;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRTH RATE; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

BIRTH RATE; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 46449122110     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2008.05.004     Document Type: Article

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