Spatial data replacing temporal data in population viability analyses: An empirical investigation for plants

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 401-410

  Ramula, Satu ^a   Dinnétz, Patrik ^b   Lehtilä, Kari ^a  

^a School of Life Sciences Södertörn University   (Sweden)

^b LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Demography; Matrix models; Population dynamics; Population growth rate; Spatiotemporal variation; Stochastic models

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650532654     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2008.10.007     Document Type: Article

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