Positive and negative feedbacks in human population dynamics: Future equilibrium or collapse?

Oikos

Volumn 120, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1301-1310

  Lima, Mauricio ^a   Berryman, Alan A ^b  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; FUTURE PROSPECT; GROWTH RATE; LIMITING FACTOR; LIVING STANDARD; MALTHUSIAN THEORY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION ECOLOGY; POPULATION SIZE;

AFRICA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 80051579333     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2010.19112.x     Document Type: Article

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