The Flask model: Emergence of nutrient-recycling microbial ecosystems and their disruption by environment-altering 'rebel' organisms

Oikos

Volumn 116, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1087-1105

  Williams, Hywel T P ^a   Lenton, Timothy M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM MODELING; EMERGENCE; EXTINCTION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MUTATION; NUTRIENT CYCLING; NUTRIENT UPTAKE;

EID: 34250714886     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2007.15721.x     Document Type: Article

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