The present work aims at separating the influence of biotic and climatic …

• Intrinsic and climatic factors in North-American animal population dynamics
• Background
• Results
• Discussion
• Conclusions
• Methods
• References
• Table 1
• Table 2
• Table 3
• Figures

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