Nonlinear sheep in a noisy world

Nils Chr. Stenseth () and Kung-Sik Chan ()
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Nils Chr. Stenseth: University of Oslo
Kung-Sik Chan: University of Iowa

Nature, 1998, vol. 394, issue 6694, 620-621

Abstract: When studying populations, how important are intrinsic factors — such as inhibition of reproduction at high population densities — compared with environmental variations? A new study of fluctuations of populations of wild Soay sheep living on two isolated Scottish islands indicates that environmental processes need to be very similar to synchronize the two populations.

Date: 1998
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