Seasonal source-sink dynamics at the edge of a species' range

Ecology

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1574-1585

  Kanda, L Leann ^a,b   Fuller, Todd K ^b   Sievert, Paul R ^b   Kellogg, Robert L ^c  

^a ITHACA COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c Argon ST Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Didelphis virginiana; Distribution edge; Individual fitness; Landscape heterogeneity; Life table; Metapopulation; Range limit; Source sink dynamics; Urbanization; Virginia opossum

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; FITNESS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HOME RANGE; JUVENILE; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; LIFE TABLE; MARSUPIAL; METAPOPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RANGE EXPANSION; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS; STARVATION; SURVIVAL; URBANIZATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; LIFE TABLE; MALE; OPOSSUM; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SEASON; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; DEMOGRAPHY; DIDELPHIS; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; LIFE TABLES; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS;

MASSACHUSETTS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

DIDELPHIDAE; DIDELPHIS VIRGINIANA;

EID: 67449138843     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-1263.1     Document Type: Article

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