How does Landscape Heterogeneity Shape Dynamics of Large Herbivore Populations?

Dynamics of Large Herbivore Populations in Changing Environments: Towards Appropriate Models

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 141-164

  Hobbs, N Thompson ^a   Gordon, Iain J ^b  

^a Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability   (United States)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Body mass of red deer correlated with positive values of north atlantic oscillation (NAO); Central challenge in ecology understanding population dynamics; Demography and population density shaping population growth rates; External controls on dynamics dominating ecological inquiry for decades; Global change and access to heterogeneity by large herbivores; Landscape heterogeneity, shaping large herbivore population dynamics; Mechanisms for spatial heterogeneity influence on population dynamics; Spatial context role in population dynamics; Spatial heterogeneity and its influence on ungulate population dynamics; Spatial heterogeneity, measured using aspatial statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 79251635808     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444318593.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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