Community response to enrichment is highly sensitive to model structure

Biology Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 9-12

  Fussmann, Gregor F ^a,b   Blasius, Bernd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Community dynamics; Model structure; Paradox of enrichment; Super sensitivity

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY;

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 27444440078     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2004.0246     Document Type: Article

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