Comparison principles for systems that embed in cooperative systems, with applications to diffusive Lotka-Volterra models

Dynamics of Continuous, Discrete and Impulsive Systems Series B: Application and Algorithm

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 283-303

  Cosner, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparison Principles; Cooperative Systems; Lotka Volterra Models; Monotone Flows; Monotone Methods; Non Cooperative Systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 0343461004     PISSN: 14928760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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