Cycle lengths and phase portrait characteristics as probes for predator-prey interactions: Comparing simulations and observed data

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 20-30

  Holmengen, Nina ^a   Seip, Knut Lehre ^a  

^a OSLO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; LIFE CYCLE; MUSTELID; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RODENT; TIME SERIES;

MUSTELA; MUSTELA VISON; ONDATRA; ONDATRA ZIBETHICUS;

EID: 61849130367     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/Z08-134     Document Type: Article

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