Agricultural and Biological Sciences
6 years ago

Interspecific competition and age structure key to predicting population fluctuations.

Ecology Letters
Accounting for interspecific competition and age structure in demographic analyses of density dependence improves predictions of fluctuations in population size
Marlène Gamelon, Stefan J. G. Vriend, Steinar Engen, Frank Adriaensen, André A. Dhondt, Simon Evans, Erik Matthysen, Ben C. Sheldon, Bernt‐Erik Sæther

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