A search for maximum species abundances in ecological communities under conditional diversity optimization

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 649-677

  Alexeyev, V L ^a   Levich, A P ^a  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY; ECOSYSTEM; HYPOTHESIS; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; SPECIES;

EID: 0031403781     PISSN: 00928240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02458424     Document Type: Article

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