Food web complexity and chaotic population dynamics

Ecology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 394-401

  Fussmann, Gregor F ^a,b   Heber, Gerd ^a  

^a Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chaos; Ecosystem stability; Food web; Population dynamics

Indexed keywords

CHAOS THEORY; COMPLEXITY; ECOLOGICAL STABILITY; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; FOOD WEB; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 0036108599     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2002.00329.x     Document Type: Article

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