Incipient criticality in ecological communities

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 48, 2008, Pages 18714-18717

  Zillio, Tommaso ^a   Banavar, Jayanth R ^b   Green, Jessica L ^c,d   Harte, John ^e   Maritan, Amos ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^d SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Complex systems; Critical phenomena; Ecology; Scaling

Indexed keywords

SERPENTINE;

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; GRASSLAND; PANAMA; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE;

ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 57749110755     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0807380105     Document Type: Article

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