Predators Reduce Extinction Risk in Noisy Metapopulations

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Bull, James C ^a   Bonsall, Michael B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HABITAT; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PARASITISM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK REDUCTION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; ANIMAL; BEETLE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LEGUME; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; WEEVIL;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; FABACEAE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; WEEVILS;

EID: 77955378719     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011635     Document Type: Article

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