Influence of local demography on asymptotic and transient dynamics of a yellow-bellied marmot metapopulation

American Naturalist

Volumn 173, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 517-530

  Ozgul, Arpat ^a,e   Oli, Madan K ^a   Armitage, Kenneth B ^b   Blumstein, Daniel T ^c   Van Vuren, Dirk H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conservation of fragmented populations; Marmota flaviventris; Matrix metapopulation model; Patch value; Transient sensitivity analysis; Vec permutation matrix

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION; METAPOPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RODENT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FEMALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SCIURIDAE; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; COLORADO; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; MARMOTA; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

COLORADO; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

MARMOTA FLAVIVENTRIS; SCIURIDAE;

EID: 63449089493     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/597225     Document Type: Article

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