Stability and diversity of ecosystems

Science

Volumn 317, Issue 5834, 2007, Pages 58-62

  Ives, Anthony R ^a   Carpenter, Stephen R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ECOLOGICAL STABILITY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOOD WEB; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 34447324898     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1133258     Document Type: Review

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