Estimating community stability and ecological interactions from time-series data

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 301-330

  Ives, A R ^a,d   Dennis, B ^b,d   Cottingham, K L ^c,d   Carpenter, S R ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^c Dartmouth College ^*  (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Community matrix; Community stability; Multivariate autoregressive process; Reactivity; Resilience; Stationary distribution; Stochastic population model; Time series analysis; Vector autoregressive process

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOLOGICAL STABILITY; EQUILIBRIUM; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 0038613595     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9615(2003)073[0301:ECSAEI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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