Complexity does not affect stability in feasible model communities

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 253, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 162-169

  Christianou, Maria ^a   Kokkoris, Giorgos D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

Central limit theorem; Competition community; Local stability; Lotka Volterra model; Resilience

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMPLEXITY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FEASIBILITY STUDY; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; PROBABILITY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; SPECIES;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROBABILITY;

EID: 44749088923     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2008.03.001     Document Type: Article

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