Speed of expansion and extinction in experimental populations

Ecology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 772-778

  Drake, John M ^a   Griffen, Blaine D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Daphnia magna; Diffusion process; Extinction; First passage time; Fluctuating environments; Microcosm; Population dynamics; Stochastic processes

Indexed keywords

CRUSTACEAN; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; EXTINCTION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RANGE EXPANSION; STOCHASTICITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DAPHNIA; ENVIRONMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TIME;

ANIMALS; DAPHNIA; ENVIRONMENT; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS;

DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA MAGNA;

EID: 67649946058     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01325.x     Document Type: Article

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