density-dependent demographic variation determines extinction rate of experimental populations密度制约的人口变化决定了实验种群灭绝率.pdfVIP

Open access, freely available online PLoS BIOLOGY Density-Dependent Demographic Variation Determines Extinction Rate of Experimental Populations ¤ John M. Drake Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America 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