Population regulation by habitat heterogeneity or individual adjustment?

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 330-340

  Krüger, Oliver ^a   Chakarov, Nayden ^a   Nielsen, Jan T ^b   Looft, Volkher ^c   Grünkorn, Thomas ^c   Struwe Juhl, Bernd ^c   Møller, Anders P ^d  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Biologiezentrum ^*  (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

Birds of prey; Intraspecific competition; Long term studies; Population density; Territory quality

Indexed keywords

BIRD; DATA SET; HETEROGENEITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; TERRITORY;

AVES; RAPTORES;

EID: 84856948940     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01904.x     Document Type: Article

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