The introduced Hawaiian avifauna reconsidered: Evidence for self-organized criticality?

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 182, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 161-167

  Keitt, Timothy H ^a,c   Marquet, Pablo A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^c SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; COMPETITION; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

AVES; HAWAIIA;

EID: 0030596913     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jtbi.1996.0150     Document Type: Article

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