On the number of limit cycles for three dimensional Lotka-Volterra systems

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 347-352

  Gyllenberg, Mats ^a   Yan, Ping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Carrying simplex; Competitive; Hopf bifurcation; Limit cycles; Lotka Volterra system

Indexed keywords

EID: 60949089924     PISSN: 15313492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/dcdsb.2009.11.347     Document Type: Article

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