Highly variable spread rates in replicated biological invasions: Fundamental limits to predictability

Science

Volumn 325, Issue 5947, 2009, Pages 1536-1539

  Melbourne, Brett A ^a   Hastings, Alan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENDOGENOUS CUE; INVASIVE SPECIES; LABORATORY METHOD; MICROCOSM; STOCHASTICITY;

ARTICLE; BEETLE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOLOGY; EMPIRICISM; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; LABORATORY; MICROCOSM; NONHUMAN; POLICY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SIZE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES INVASION; TRIBOLIUM; TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM; VARIANCE;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; FORECASTING; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TRIBOLIUM;

COLEOPTERA; TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM;

EID: 70349328530     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1176138     Document Type: Article

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