Complex dynamics and phase synchronization in spatially extended ecological systems

Nature

Volumn 399, Issue 6734, 1999, Pages 354-359

  Blasius, Bernd ^a   Huppert, Amit ^a   Stone, Lewi ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; POPULATION CYCLE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TRITROPHIC INTERACTION;

ARTICLE; CHAOTIC DYNAMICS; ECOLOGY; FOOD CHAIN; HARE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CARNIVORA; ECOLOGY; FOOD CHAIN; LAGOMORPHA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PERIODICITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

LEPUS;

EID: 0033609387     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/20676     Document Type: Article

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