Stabilization of large generalized Lotka-Volterra foodwebs by evolutionary feedback

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 15, 2004, Pages

  Ackland, G J ^a   Gallagher, I D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENTROPY; FEEDBACK; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OSCILLATIONS; POPULATION STATISTICS; PROBABILITY;

EVOLUTIONARY DYNAMICS; LOTKA-VOLTERRA FOODWEBS; POWER-LAW DISTRIBUTIONS; PREDATORS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

EID: 19644401490     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.158701     Document Type: Article

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