Enrichment can stabilize population dynamics: Autotoxins and density dependence

Ecology

Volumn 79, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 2456-2462

  Kirk, Kevin L ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Allelopathy; Autotoxins and density dependent mortality; Enrichment and population dynamics; Lyapunov exponent; Microcosms; Paradox of enrichment; Population cycles; Predator prey dynamics; Rotifers; Stability; Synchaeta pectinata; Zooplankton phytoplankton interactions

Indexed keywords

DENSITY DEPENDENCE; ENRICHMENT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY AVAILABILITY; TOXIN;

ACARI; PROTOZOA; ROTIFERA; SYNCHAETA PECTINATA;

EID: 0031683989     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1998)079[2456:ECSPDA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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