Self-Regulation Hypotheses for Fluctuations
Self-Regulation Hypotheses for Fluctuations
Self-regulation hypotheses suggest that interactions between individuals in a population cause demographic changes which produce population fluctuations. Two types of self-regulation mechanisms cause population fluctuations in rodents: the stress hypothesis and the polymorphic behavior hypothesis. This chapter discusses the formulation of these hypotheses and the experiments used to test both hypotheses on small rodents.
Keywords: self-regulation hypotheses, population, population fluctuations, rodents, stress, polymorphic behavior
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