Population responses to perturbations: The importance of trait-based analysis illustrated through a microcosm experiment

American Naturalist

Volumn 179, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 582-594

  Ozgul, Arpat ^a,b   Coulson, Tim ^a   Reynolds, Alan ^c   Cameron, Tom C ^c,d   Benton, Tim G ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Integral projection model; Matrix population model; Sancassania berlesei; Soil mite; Trait based demography; Transient perturbation analysis; Transient population dynamics

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MATRIX; MICROCOSM; MITE; PERTURBATION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SOIL MICROORGANISM;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY SIZE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; MALE; MITE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; FEMALE; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MALE; MITES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ACARI; SANCASSANIA BERLESEI;

EID: 84859701668     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/664999     Document Type: Article

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