Synergistic influences of phase, density, and climatic variation on the dynamics of fluctuating populations

Ecology

Volumn 92, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1680-1690

  Goswami, Varun R ^a   Getz, Lowell L ^b   Hostetler, Jeffrey A ^a   Ozgul, Arpat ^c   Oli, Madan K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capture mark recapture (CMR) analysis; Density dependent and density independent processes; Microtus ochrogaster; Population growth; Pradel's temporal symmetry CMR model; Prairie vole; Recruitment; Survival

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE EFFECT; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; GROWTH RATE; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION MODELING; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); RODENT; SEASONALITY; SURVIVAL; SYNERGISM;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ARVICOLINAE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS;

ILLINOIS; UNITED STATES;

MAMMALIA; MICROTUS OCHROGASTER; MURIDAE;

EID: 79961068136     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-2317.1     Document Type: Article

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