'Critical slowing down' in time-to-extinction: An example of critical phenomena in ecology

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 192, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 363-376

  Gandhi, Amar ^a,b   Levin, Simon ^a   Orszag, Steven ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTINCTION; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; POPULATION MODEL;

ARTICLE; COMPETITION; DENSITY; DYNAMICS; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; MODEL; PHASE TRANSITION; PHENOMENOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICS;

EID: 0032493182     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jtbi.1998.0660     Document Type: Article

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