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CR Climate Research Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout the JournalEditorsSpecials CR 30:125-132 (2006) - doi:10.3354/cr030125 Climate and small rodent dynamics in semi-arid Chile: the role of lateral and vertical perturbations and intra-specific processes Mauricio Lima1,*, M. Andrea Previtali2, Peter L. Meserve2 1Center for Advanced Studies in Ecology and Biodiversity, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 193 Correo 22, Santiago CP 6513677, Chile 2Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois 60115, USA *Email: mlima@genes.bio.puc.cl ABSTRACT: The study of the relative importance of the feedback structure (intrinsic processes) and exogenous (climatic or environmental) factors in determining population dynamics, in particular the interaction between density-dependence and climate, is a major question in population ecology. We sought to explain the numerical fluctuations of 2 sympatric rodent species at one well-studied site in semi-arid Chile using simple theoretically based population dynamics models and Royamas theoretical framework for analyzing the dynamics of populations influenced by exogenous climatic forces. We found that rainfall effects appear to operate in a different manner on the 2 rodent species. For one species (Phyllotis darwini), rainfall appeared to influence the carrying capacity of the environment, whereas for a second (Akodon olivaceus) the rainfall effect had a primarily additive influence on the maximum per capita growth rates. KEY WORDS: Small rodents · Population dynamics models · ENSO · Lateral perturbations Full text in pdf format PreviousNextExport citation RSS - Facebook - Tweet - linkedIn Cited by Published in CR Vol. 30, No. 2. Online publication date: February 23, 2006 Print ISSN: 0936-577X; Online ISSN: 1616-1572 Copyright © 2006 Inter-Research.
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