Swarm Ecology
layer 3 · theory

journal article · Ecology: energetics, niches & interactions

Sources, Sinks, and Population Regulation

H. Ronald Pulliam · 1988

The American Naturalist

Pulliam's paper on sources, sinks, and population regulation. The companion cites it for the point that a lineage needs Rm above one in only one niche. It qualifies the metabolic reproduction number, the operational onset of naturalization and of the Darwinization of the datasphere.

Cited in
the companion paper (Companion §5)
Used for
R_m; naturalization
Strand
Ecology: energetics, niches & interactions · Niches, competition, succession & radiation

Cite

@article{pulliam1988sources,
  title = {Sources, Sinks, and Population Regulation},
  author = {H. Ronald Pulliam},
  year = {1988},
  journal = {The American Naturalist},
  doi = {10.1086/284880},
}