Density-dependent demographic variation determines extinction rate of experimental populations.
Understanding population extinctions is a chief goal of ecological theory. While stochastic theories of population growth are commonly used to forecast extinction, models used for prediction have not been adequately tested with experimental data. In a previously published experiment, variation in av...
| Format: | Article |
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| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2005-07-01
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| Series: | PLoS Biology |
| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0030222 |