How is extinction risk related to population-size variability over time? A family of models for species with repeated extinction and immigration

American Naturalist

Volumn 172, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 282-298

  Legendre, Stéphane ^a   Schoener, Thomas W ^b   Clobert, Jean ^c   Spiller, David A ^b  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c École Nationale de Formation Agronomique   (France)

Author keywords

Extinction rate; Immigration rate; Metapopulation; Population variability

Indexed keywords

EXTINCTION RISK; GROWTH RATE; IMMIGRATION; ISOLATED POPULATION; METAPOPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION SIZE; RECOLONIZATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

AGE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENVIRONMENT; GROWTH; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SPIDER; TIME;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENT; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GROWTH; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SPIDERS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 49849091417     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/589454     Document Type: Article

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