The strength of species interactions modifies population responses to environmental variation in competitive communities

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 310, Issue , 2012, Pages 199-205

  Ruokolainen, Lasse ^a   Ripa, Jörgen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Autocorrelation; Competition; Density dependence; Environmental correlation; Stability

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; LIFE HISTORY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STOCHASTICITY;

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPETITVE COMMUNITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION REGULATION; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALS; BIOTA; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENT; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84864062863     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2012.06.035     Document Type: Article

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