Spontaneously broken neutral symmetry in an ecological system

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Borile, C ^a   Munoz M A ^b   Azaele, S ^c   Banavar, Jayanth R ^d   Maritan, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDENSED MATTER; DEATH RATES; DYNAMICAL EVOLUTION; ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; EMPIRICAL DATA; POPULATION DENSITIES; SIMPLIFYING ASSUMPTIONS; SPONTANEOUS SYMMETRY BREAKING; STATIONARY STATE; TROPICAL FOREST;

BIODIVERSITY; POPULATION STATISTICS;

ECOLOGY;

EID: 84864222766     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.038102     Document Type: Article

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