Predation, individual variability and vertebrate population dynamics

Oecologia

Volumn 167, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 305-314

  Pettorelli, Nathalie ^a   Coulson, Tim ^b   Durant, Sarah M ^a   Gaillard, Jean Michel ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Demography; Phenotype; Predator prey interactions; Trophic cascades; Wildlife management

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; FIELDWORK; GENERALIST; GENOTYPE; HETEROGENEITY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY SELECTION; SPECIALIZATION; TROPHIC CASCADE; VERTEBRATE; VULNERABILITY; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; REVIEW; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; VERTEBRATES;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 80052660236     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-011-2069-y     Document Type: Review

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