Chaos, cycles and spatiotemporal dynamics in plant ecology

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 279-291

  Stone, Lewi ^a   Ezrati, Smadar ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Chaos; Nonlinear model; Plant dynamics; Spatial model; Time series

Indexed keywords

CHAOS; LYAPUNOV EXPONENT; NONLINEAR MODEL; PLANT DYNAMICS; SAMPLE SIZE; SPATIOTEMPORAL DYNAMICS; TIME SERIES;

EID: 0029730988     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2261363     Document Type: Review

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