Inferring the Relative Resilience of Alternative States

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Angeler, David G ^a   Allen, Craig R ^b   Rojo, Carmen ^c   Alvarez Cobelas, Miguel ^d   Rodrigo, María A ^c   Sánchez Carrillo, Salvador ^d  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^d MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; FLOODPLAIN; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COMMUNITY; PHYTOPLANKTON; SPAIN; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; FLOODS; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEASONS; SPAIN;

EID: 84885412653     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077338     Document Type: Article

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