Stability and complexity in ecological systems

Chaos, solitons and fractals

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 533-542

  Upadhyay, Ranjit Kumar ^a   Iyengar, S R K ^a   Rai, Vikas ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; CHAOS THEORY; ECOSYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

DYNAMICAL COMPLEXITY; ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; STRUCTURAL COMPLEXITY;

SYSTEM THEORY;

EID: 0034159615     PISSN: 09600779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-0779(98)00112-X     Document Type: Article

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