Demographic origins of skewed operational and adult sex ratios: Perturbation analyses of two-sex models

Ecology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 129-143

  Veran, Sophie ^a   Beissinger, Steven R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Elasticity; Forpus passerinus; Life stage simulation analysis; Life table response experiment; Mating competition; Sensitivity; Sex ratio; Stable stage distribution; Two sex population model

Indexed keywords

BIRD; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; LIFE TABLE; PHILOPATRY; POPULATION MODELING; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE COST; SEX RATIO; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MIGRATION; PSITTACINE; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; THEORETICAL MODEL; VENEZUELA;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PSITTACIFORMES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; VENEZUELA;

FORPUS PASSERINUS;

EID: 58249102174     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2008.01268.x     Document Type: Article

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