Modelling non-additive and nonlinear signals from climatic noise in ecological time series: Soay sheep as an example

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue 1552, 2004, Pages 1985-1993

  Stenseth, Nils Chr ^a   Chan, Kung Sik ^b   Tavecchia, Giacomo ^c,d,f   Coulson, Tim ^e   Mysterud, Atle ^a   Clutton Brock, Tim ^c   Grenfell, Bryan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Climate effects; Density dependence; Population cycles; Soay sheep (Ovis aries); Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; POPULATION CYCLE; SHEEP; TIME SERIES;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DYNAMICS; ECOLOGY; FUNCTIONAL COEFFICIENT THRESHOLD AUTO REGRESSIVE METHOD; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GROWTH; METHODOLOGY; NOISE; NONHUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESEARCH; SHEEP; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; UNITED KINGDOM; WEATHER;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; HIRTA; SAINT KILDA; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WESTERN ISLES; WORLD;

OVIS ARIES;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SCOTLAND; SHEEP; WEATHER;

EID: 7944229907     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2794     Document Type: Article

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