Stability and variability in competitive communities

Science

Volumn 286, Issue 5439, 1999, Pages 542-544

  Ives, A R ^a   Gross, K ^a   Klug, J L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMPETITIVE DISPLACEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; COMPETITION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BIOMASS; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0033569680     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.286.5439.542     Document Type: Article

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