IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/wop/safiwp/97-12-089.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Dynamics of North American Breeding Bird Populations

Author

Listed:

Abstract

The dynamics of biological populations often appear quite complex, exhibiting considerable year-to-year variation in local abundances. One approach to dealing with ecological complexity is to reduce the system to one or a few species, for which meaningful equations can be written and even solved. Here we explore an alternative approach by studying statistical properties of a vastly larger assemblage comprising over 600 species. Specifically, we quantitatively analyze one of the most comprehensive data sets available: the North American Breeding Bird Survey, which records annual species abundances over a 31-year period at more than 3,000 survey routes. We analyze all the data on an equal footing, and find features common to other, inanimate systems composed of strongly interacting subunits.

Suggested Citation

  • Timothy H. Keitt & H. Eugene Stanley, 1997. "Dynamics of North American Breeding Bird Populations," Working Papers 97-12-089, Santa Fe Institute.
    • Handle: RePEc:wop:safiwp:97-12-089
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:wop:safiwp:97-12-089. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Thomas Krichel (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/epstfus.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.