Demographic routes to variability and regulation in bird populations
Why does population variability differ? Sæther et al. show that the magnitude of temporal variation of avian population fluctuations is mainly determined by environmental fluctuations affecting recruitment, whereas regulation of mean population size occurs through density-dependent mortality.
Bibliographic Details
| Main Authors: |
Bernt-Erik Sæther,
Vidar Grøtan,
Steinar Engen,
Tim Coulson,
Peter R. Grant,
Marcel E. Visser,
Jon E. Brommer,
B. Rosemary Grant,
Lars Gustafsson,
Ben J. Hatchwell,
Kurt Jerstad,
Patrik Karell,
Hannu Pietiäinen,
Alexandre Roulin,
Ole W. Røstad,
Henri Weimerskirch |
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| Format: | Article
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| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Nature Publishing Group
2016-06-01
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| Series: | Nature Communications
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12001
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