Are patterns of density dependence in the Global Population Dynamics Database driven by uncertainty about population abundance?

Ecology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 17-23

  Knape, Jonas ^a   de Valpine, Perry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Density dependence; GPDD; Observation error; Time series

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; DATA SET; DATABASE; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; GROWTH RATE; KALMAN FILTER; POPULATION DYNAMICS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; FACTUAL DATABASE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; UNCERTAINTY;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 82455187946     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01702.x     Document Type: Article

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