Estimating the effect of temporally autocorrelated environments on the demography of density-independent age-structured populations

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 573-584

  Engen, Steinar ^a   Sæther, Bernt Erik ^a   Armitage, Kenneth B ^b   Blumstein, Daniel T ^c   Clutton Brock, Tim H ^d   Dobson, F Stephen ^e,f   Festa Bianchet, Marco ^g   Oli, Madan K ^h   Ozgul, Arpat ^h,i  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e CNRS   (France)

^f AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age structure; Autocorrelated noise; Environmental stochasticity; Individual reproductive value; Life history; Stochastic population growth rate

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84877771265     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12043     Document Type: Article

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