Grasshopper population ecology: Catastrophe, criticality, and critique

Ecology and Society

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Lockwood, Dale R ^a   Lockwood, Jeffrey A ^b  

^a Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Catastrophe theory; Complexity science; Grasshoppers; Models; Pest management; Population dynamics; Rangeland ecosystem; Self organized criticality

Indexed keywords

CATASTROPHE THEORY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FORECASTING METHOD; GRASSHOPPER; PEST CONTROL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION ECOLOGY; POPULATION OUTBREAK; POWER LAW; RANGELAND; THEORETICAL STUDY;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 50149104180     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-02496-130134     Document Type: Article

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