Nucleation and relaxation from meta-stability in spatial ecological models

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 200, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 121-146

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

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; NUCLEATION;

ARTICLE; COMPETITION; ECOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033592360     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jtbi.1999.0978     Document Type: Article

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