Large species shifts triggered by small forces

American Naturalist

Volumn 164, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 255-266

  Van Nes, Egbert H ^a   Scheffer, Marten ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alternative stable states; Assembly rules; Community shifts; Competition models; Regime shift; Resilience

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EVOLUTION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENT; FOOD CHAIN; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENT; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 4143105661     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/422204     Document Type: Article

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