Shape of ecological networks

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 19, 2001, Pages 4418-4421

  Lässig, Michael ^a   Bastolla, Ugo ^b   Manrubia, Susanna C ^b   Valleriani, Angelo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF COLLOIDS AND INTERFACES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; BIODIVERSITY; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TOPOLOGY;

ECOLOGICAL NETWORKS; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 17544386269     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.4418     Document Type: Article

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