Coupled oscillations in food webs: Balancing competition and mutualism in simple ecological models

American Naturalist

Volumn 163, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 857-867

  Vandermeer, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Chaos; Competition; Coupled oscillators; Mutualism

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); COUPLING; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOOD WEB; MUTUALISM;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOLOGY; FOOD CHAIN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; ECOLOGY; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 3042764670     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/420776     Document Type: Article

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