Experimental demonstration of a two-phase population extinction hazard

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 8, Issue 63, 2011, Pages 1472-1479

  Drake, John M ^a   Shapiro, Jeff ^a,b   Griffen, Blaine D ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Daphnia magna; Extinction; Microcosm; Population dynamics

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; ECOSYSTEMS; EXPERIMENTS; HAZARDS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION STATISTICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANALYSIS OF DATA; BIOLOGICAL PROCESS; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; DAPHNIA MAGNA; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; EXTINCTION TIME; INITIAL CONDITIONS; INITIAL POPULATION; MICROCOSM; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS; QUASI-STATIONARITY; QUASI-STATIONARY; REGRESSION MODEL; SURVIVAL TIME; THEORETICAL MODELS; TRANSIENT PHASE; TRANSIENT PROPERTY;

POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ARTICLE; DAPHNIA; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE; HABITAT STRUCTURE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DISPERSION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION SIZE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SPECIES HABITAT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

DAPHNIA MAGNA;

EID: 80052228213     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2011.0024     Document Type: Article

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