Paradoxical persistence through mixed-system dynamics: Towards a unified perspective of reversal behaviours in evolutionary ecology

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1710, 2011, Pages 1281-1290

  Williams, Paul David ^a   Hastings, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coexistence; Paradoxical games; Persistence; Reactivity; Reversal behaviour; Stochastic dynamics

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; METAPOPULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERSISTENCE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 79953311387     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.2074     Document Type: Review

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