Complexity can enhance stability in competitive systems

Ecology Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 397-400

  Rozdilsky, I D ^a   Stone, L ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Compartmentalization; Competition; Complexity vs. stability; Connectance; Lotka Volterra systems

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; COMPETITION; COMPLEXITY; LOTKA-VOLTERRA MODEL; PERSISTENCE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 0034761142     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2001.00249.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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