On the concept of attractor for community-dynamical processes I: The case of unstructured populations

Journal of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 222-234

  Jacobs, F J A ^a,b   Metz, J A J ^a,c  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Adaptive dynamics; Attractors; Chain recurrency; Community dynamics; Pseudoorbits

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; NOMENCLATURE; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 1442265298     PISSN: 03036812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00285-003-0204-z     Document Type: Article

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