Increasing complexity can increase stability in a self-regulating ecosystem

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4648 LNAI, Issue , 2007, Pages 133-142

  Dyke, James ^a   McDonald Gibson, Jamie ^a   Di Paolo, Ezequiel ^a   Harvey, Inman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

ECOSYSTEM COMPLEXITY; MODEL ECOSYSTEM;

ECOSYSTEMS;

EID: 38049091272     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74913-4_14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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