Transitions from stable equilibria to chaos, and back, in an experimental food web

Ecology

Volumn 89, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3222-3226

  Becks, Lutz ^a,b   Arndt, Hartmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Chaos; Plankton dynamics; Predator prey; Tetrahymena pyriformis; Transition in population dynamics

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; BACTERIVORY; CILIATE; EQUILIBRIUM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOOD WEB; PLANKTON; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; STOCHASTICITY; TIME SERIES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CILIOPHORA; TETRAHYMENA PYRIFORMIS;

EID: 63849278416     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-1988.1     Document Type: Article

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