Fitting models of multiple hypotheses to partial population data: investigating the causes of cycles in red grouse

American Naturalist

Volumn 174, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 399-412

  New, Leslie F ^a   Matthiopoulos, Jason ^a   Redpath, Stephen ^b   Buckland, Stephen T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aggressiveness; Bayesian statistics; Cyclic population dynamics; Lagopus lagopus scoticus; State space modeling, trichostrongylus tenuis

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; GAMEBIRD; MALE BEHAVIOR; NEMATODE; PERIODICITY; POPULATION CYCLE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TERRITORIALITY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD DISEASE; GALLIFORMES; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TERRITORIALITY; TRICHOSTRONGYLOSIS; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRD DISEASES; GALLIFORMES; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TERRITORIALITY; TRICHOSTRONGYLOSIS; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS;

LAGOPUS LAGOPUS SCOTICUS; TETRAONIDAE; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS TENUIS;

EID: 70149118989     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/603625     Document Type: Article

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