Spatial and temporal variation in the relative contribution of density dependence, climate variation and migration to fluctuations in the size of great tit populations

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 447-459

  Grøtan, Vidar ^a   Sæther, Bernt Erik ^a   Engen, Steinar ^a   Van Balen, Johan H ^b   Perdeck, Albert C ^b   Visser, Marcel E ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Demographic stochasticity; Density regulation; Dispersal; Environmental stochasticity; Stochastic population dynamics

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; BREEDING SEASON; CLIMATE CHANGE; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; MIGRATION; PASSERINE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION SIZE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SPATIAL VARIATION; STOCHASTICITY; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIME SERIES;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MIGRATION; SPARROW; TIME;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; CLIMATE; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPARROWS; TIME FACTORS;

FAGUS; PARUS MAJOR;

EID: 59449098313     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2008.01488.x     Document Type: Article

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