Demographic heterogeneity impacts density-dependent population dynamics

Theoretical Ecology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 297-309

  Stover, Joseph P ^a   Kendall, Bruce E ^a   Fox, Gordon A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cohort selection; Demographic heterogeneity; Frailty; Individual variation; Logistic model

Indexed keywords

COHORT ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; FERTILITY; GROWTH RATE; HETEROGENEITY; MORTALITY; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; STOCHASTICITY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84859218744     PISSN: 18741738     EISSN: 18741746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12080-011-0129-x     Document Type: Article

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