Sustained plankton blooms under open chaotic flows

Ecological Complexity

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 253-259

  Hernández García, Emilio ^a   López, Cristóbal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chaotic flows; Excitability; Plankton blooms; Predator prey dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 12844263077     PISSN: 1476945X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2004.05.002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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