Resonance of plankton communities with temperature fluctuations

American Naturalist

Volumn 178, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Benincá, Elisa ^a,b   Dakos, Vasilis ^b   Van Nes, Egbert H ^b   Huisman, Jef ^a   Scheffer, Marten ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Characteristic timescale; Environmental stochasticity; Plankton dynamics; Predator prey model; Red noise; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; INVERTEBRATE; OPEN OCEAN; PLANKTON; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RESONANCE; SHALLOW WATER; STOCHASTICITY; THEORETICAL STUDY; TIME SERIES; TIMESCALE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOOD CHAIN; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LAKE; PLANKTON; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEA; STATISTICS; TEMPERATURE; TIME;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOOD CHAIN; LAKES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; PLANKTON; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

COPEPODA; EUPHAUSIACEA; ROTIFERA;

EID: 80053274532     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/661902     Document Type: Article

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