Oscillations and chaos behind predator-prey invasion: Mathematical artifact or ecological reality?

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 352, Issue 1349, 1997, Pages 21-38

  Sherratt, Jonathan A ^a   Eagan, Barry T ^b   Lewis, Mark A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CHAOS; OSCILLATORY POPULATION KINETICS; PREDATOR-PREY SYSTEM;

EID: 0030814768     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1997.0003     Document Type: Article

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