Stochastic population dynamics of a montane ground-dwelling squirrel

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Hostetler, Jeffrey A ^a,b   Kneip, Eva ^a,d   van Vuren, Dirk H ^c   Oli, Madan K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CALLOSPERMOPHILUS LATERALIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; GROWTH RATE; IMMIGRATION; JUVENILE ANIMAL; LIFE HISTORY; LIFE TABLE; LITTER SIZE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SQUIRREL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SCIURIDAE; STATISTICS;

SCIURIDAE; SPERMOPHILUS LATERALIS;

ANIMALS; COLORADO; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; SCIURIDAE; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84858955658     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034379     Document Type: Article

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