Resonance effects and outbreaks in ecological time series

Ecology Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 167-177

  Blarer, Albert ^a   Doebeli, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Diapause; Dormancy; Nonlinear population dynamics; Outbreaks; Seasonality; Stage structured model; Stochastic environments; Stochastic resonance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033046113     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.1999.00067.x     Document Type: Article

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