Population floors and the persistence of chaos in ecological models

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 175-183

  Ruxton, Graeme D ^a   Rohani, Pejman ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAOS THEORY; PERSISTENCE; POPULATION MODELING;

EID: 0032096552     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/tpbi.1998.1312     Document Type: Article

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