Coupled predator-prey oscillations in a chaotic food web

Ecology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1367-1378

  Benincà, Elisa ^a,b   Jöhnk, Klaus D ^a,c   Heerkloss, Reinhard ^d   Huisman, Jef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Chaos; Coupled oscillators; Food web; Plankton community; Predator prey cycles; Time series analysis; Wavelet analysis

Indexed keywords

FOOD WEB; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION SIZE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; TIME SERIES; WAVELET ANALYSIS; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOOD CHAIN; PHYTOPLANKTON; PREDATION; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYTOPLANKTON; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; ZOOPLANKTON;

EID: 70449346128     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01391.x     Document Type: Article

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