Searching explanations of nature in the mirror world of math

Ecology and Society

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1999, Pages

  Scheffer, Marten ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bifurcation; Catastrophe; Chaos; Cycle; Daphnia; Fish; Macrophyte; Model; Multiple stable states; Plankton; Predation; Trophic cascade

Indexed keywords

EID: 0013220005     PISSN: 17083087     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/es-00134-030211     Document Type: Review

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