Stochastic models of population extinction

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 643-652

  Ovaskainen, Otso ^a   Meerson, Baruch ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; EXTINCTION; NOISE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION SIZE; POWER LAW; STOCHASTICITY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REVIEW; SPECIES EXTINCTION; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 77957911001     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2010.07.009     Document Type: Review

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