Biodiversity of plankton by species oscillations and chaos

Nature

Volumn 402, Issue 6760, 1999, Pages 407-410

  Huisman, Jef ^a,b,d   Welssing, Franz J ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; LIMITING FACTOR; PLANKTON; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CHAOTIC DYNAMICS; COMPETITION; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PLANKTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033604549     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/46540     Document Type: Article

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