The Resilience and Resistance of an Ecosystem to a Collapse of Diversity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Downing, Andrea S ^a   van Nes, Egbert H ^a   Mooij, Wolf M ^a,b   Scheffer, Marten ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CENTRAL AMERICA; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL REEF; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; NATIVE SPECIES; PREDATOR; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

ANTHOZOA; CICHLIDAE;

EID: 84866918125     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046135     Document Type: Article

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