Regime shifts in ecological systems can occur with no warning

Ecology Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 464-472

  Hastings, Alan ^a   Wysham, Derin B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chaos; Dynamics; Potential; Predator prey; Regime shifts; Ricker model

Indexed keywords

CHAOTIC DYNAMICS; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 77951716336     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01439.x     Document Type: Article

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