Quantitative bioscience for the 21st century

BioScience

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 511-517

  Hastings, Alan ^a   Arzberger, Peter ^b   Bolker, Ben ^c   Collins, Scott ^d   Ives, Anthony R ^e   Johnson, Norman A ^f   Palmer, Margaret A ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^g Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecosystems; Evolution; Mathematical biology; Mathematics; Nonlinearity

Indexed keywords

EID: 19944382150     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2005)055[0511:QBFTSC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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