Role of detritus in a general prey-predator model of Sunderban Estuary, India

BioSystems

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 153-160

  Sarkar, A K ^a   Ghosh, Dipanwita ^a  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Global attractor; Hopf type oscillations; Leaf detritus; Limit cycle

Indexed keywords

DETRITIVORE; DETRITUS; LITTER; MANGROVE; MANGROVE SWAMPS; PREDATION; PREDATOR-PREY MODEL;

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; ESTUARY; GROWTH RATE; INDIA; INVERTEBRATE; MODEL; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATOR; PRODUCTIVITY; STEADY STATE;

INDIA; SUNDARBANS; WEST BENGAL;

EID: 0030699324     PISSN: 03032647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-2647(97)00053-1     Document Type: Article

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