Evidence of alternate attractors from a whole-ecosystem regime shift experiment

Theoretical Ecology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 385-394

  Seekell, David A ^a   Cline, Timothy J ^b   Carpenter, Stephen R ^c   Pace, Michael L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternate ecosystem attractors; BDS test; Bifurcation; Ecosystem experiment; GARCH; Nonlinearity; Phase space; Regime shift; Trophic triangle

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; FISH; FOOD WEB; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; NONLINEARITY; PISCIVORE; PLANKTIVORE; TROPHIC CASCADE;

EID: 84880699469     PISSN: 18741738     EISSN: 18741746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12080-013-0183-7     Document Type: Article

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