Nature Communications (Jun 2016)
Demographic routes to variability and regulation in bird populations
- 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
Affiliations
- Bernt-Erik Sæther
- Department of Biology, Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
- Vidar Grøtan
- Department of Biology, Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
- Steinar Engen
- Department of Mathematical Sciences, Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
- Tim Coulson
- Department of Zoology, University of Oxford
- Peter R. Grant
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University
- Marcel E. Visser
- Department of Animal Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW)
- Jon E. Brommer
- Department of Biology, University Hill, University of Turku
- B. Rosemary Grant
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University
- Lars Gustafsson
- Department of Animal Ecology, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University
- Ben J. Hatchwell
- Department of Animal & Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield
- Kurt Jerstad
- Aurebekksveien 61
- Patrik Karell
- Department of Biosciences, Environmental and Marine Biology
- Hannu Pietiäinen
- Department of Biosciences, Bird Ecology Unit, University of Helsinki
- Alexandre Roulin
- Department of Ecology and Evolution, Biophore, University of Lausannne
- Ole W. Røstad
- Department of Ecology and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
- Henri Weimerskirch
- Centre d'Etudes Biologiques de Chizé
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12001
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 7,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 8
Abstract
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.
