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Technical comment. "On the Regulation of Populations of Mammals, Birds, Fish, and Insects" III

Technical comment. "On the Regulation of Populations of Mammals, Birds, Fish, and Insects" III
Technical comment. "On the Regulation of Populations of Mammals, Birds, Fish, and Insects" III
Stochasticity in time series explains concave responses of per capita growth rate to population size. The gradients with the natural log of population size have more biological importance because they measure strength of density compensation. Its weakening with increasing body size across taxa (Sibly et al., Reports, 22 July 2005, p. 607) is consistent with slower responses in ascent than descent toward carrying capacity. Time series therefore suggest that populations of large-bodied animals underfill their environments.
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Doncaster, C. Patrick
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Doncaster, C. Patrick
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Doncaster, C. Patrick (2006) Technical comment. "On the Regulation of Populations of Mammals, Birds, Fish, and Insects" III. Science, 311 (5764), p.1100. (doi:10.1126/science.1122383).

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Abstract

Stochasticity in time series explains concave responses of per capita growth rate to population size. The gradients with the natural log of population size have more biological importance because they measure strength of density compensation. Its weakening with increasing body size across taxa (Sibly et al., Reports, 22 July 2005, p. 607) is consistent with slower responses in ascent than descent toward carrying capacity. Time series therefore suggest that populations of large-bodied animals underfill their environments.

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Published date: 24 February 2006

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Local EPrints ID: 66492
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/66492
ISSN: 0036-8075
PURE UUID: c19a3082-8727-41ce-a600-027c15d6e33b
ORCID for C. Patrick Doncaster: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-9406-0693

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Date deposited: 24 Jun 2009
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 02:38

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