Scaling up: How do exogenous fluctuations in individual-based resource competition models re-emerge in aggregated stochastic population models?

Population Ecology

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 173-182

  Johst, Karin ^a   Lima, Mauricio ^b   Berryman, Alan A ^c  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^c WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental noise; Model aggregation; Population dynamics; Stochastic growth rate; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); GROWTH RATE; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; NOISE; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PEST CONTROL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION STRUCTURE; STOCHASTICITY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 84871662160     PISSN: 14383896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10144-012-0345-2     Document Type: Article

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