Response to comments on "On the regulation of populations of mammals, birds, fish, and insects"

Sibly, R. M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6828-3543, Barker, D., Denham, M. C., Hone, J. and Pagel, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7287-8865 (2006) Response to comments on "On the regulation of populations of mammals, birds, fish, and insects". Science, 311 (5764). p. 1. ISSN 0036-8075 doi: 10.1126/science.1121565

Abstract/Summary

The technical comments by Getz and Lloyd-Smith, Ross, and Doncaster focus on specific aspects of our analysis and estimation and do not demonstrate any results opposing our key conclusion-that, contrary to what was previously believed, the relation between a population's growth rate (pgr) and its density is generally concave.