Transient dynamics and food-web complexity in the Lotka-Volterra cascade model

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 268, Issue 1469, 2001, Pages 869-877

  Chen, X ^a   Cohen, J E ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Food webs; Persistence; Perturbation; Reactivity; Resilience; Stability

Indexed keywords

FOOD WEB; LOTKA-VOLTERRA MODEL; RESILIENCE;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DYNAMICS; ECOLOGY; FOOD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

EID: 0035932743     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2001.1596     Document Type: Article

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