On a food web consisting of a specialist and a generalist predator

Journal of Biological Systems

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 365-376

  Gakkhar, S ^a   Naji, R K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

Author keywords

Attractor; Chaos; Food web; Persistence; Stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0348197193     PISSN: 02183390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218339003000956     Document Type: Article

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