Accounting for wildlife life-history strategies when modeling stochastic density-dependent populations: A review

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 4-11

  Williams, Christopher K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

density dependence; environmental stochasticity; K selected species; maximum sustained yield; nonlinear; r selected species; theta logistic

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LITERATURE REVIEW; LOGISTICS; NONLINEARITY; STOCHASTICITY; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84872069349     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: 19372817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jwmg.429     Document Type: Review

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