Basin boundary collision as a model of discontinuous change in ecosystems

Ecology

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1817-1827

  Vandermeer, John ^a   Yodzis, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Basin boundary collision; Basins of attraction; Chaos; Models, discontinuous change in ecosystems; One dimensional maps; Strange attractors

Indexed keywords

BASIN; DISCONTINUITY; ECOSYSTEM MODELING;

EID: 0032851956     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1999)080[1817:BBCAAM]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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