Poor environmental tracking can make extinction risk insensitive to the colour of environmental noise

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1725, 2011, Pages 3713-3722

  van de Pol, Martijn ^a,b   Vindenes, Yngvild ^a   Sæther, Bernt Erik ^a   Engen, Steinar ^a   Ens, Bruno J ^c   Oosterbeek, Kees ^c   Tinbergen, Joost M ^d  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c SOVON DUTCH CENTRE FOR FIELD ORNITHOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Climatic variability; Demographic and environmental stochasticity; Noise filtering; Nonlinearity; Population viability analysis; Temporal autocorrelation

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; COLOR; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; EXTINCTION RISK; NOISE; NONLINEARITY; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; SYNCHRONY; TRACKING; VULNERABILITY; WADER;

EID: 80855127448     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.0487     Document Type: Article

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