Experimental demonstration of chaos in a microbial food web

Nature

Volumn 435, Issue 7046, 2005, Pages 1226-1229

  Becks, Lutz ^a   Hilker, Frank M ^b   Malchow, Horst ^b   Jürgens, Klaus ^c,d   Arndt, Hartmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CHAOS THEORY; CHEMOSTATS; LYAPUNOV METHODS;

CHAOTIC BEHAVIOR; DILUTION RATES; ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; MULTI-SPECIES SYSTEMS;

ECOLOGY;

CHAOS THEORY; FOOD WEB;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BREVUNDIMONAS; CHEMOSTAT; CILIATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; FOOD WEB; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; NATURAL POPULATION; NONHUMAN; PEDOBACTER; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TETRAHYMENA PYRIFORMIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TETRAHYMENA PYRIFORMIS;

CILIOPHORA;

EID: 21744442116     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03627     Document Type: Article

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