Slower recovery in space before collapse of connected populations

Nature

Volumn 496, Issue 7445, 2013, Pages 355-358

  Dai, Lei ^a   Korolev, Kirill S ^a   Gore, Jeff ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; ISOLATED POPULATION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; YEAST;

ARTICLE; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION BIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YEAST;

ECOSYSTEM; FEEDBACK; HYDROLYSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUCROSE;

EID: 84876294333     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12071     Document Type: Article

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