Dynamics of a producer-freeloader ecosystem on the brink of collapse

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Chen, Andrew ^a   Sanchez, Alvaro ^a,b   Dai, Lei ^a   Gore, Jeff ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MONOCULTURE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION SIZE; SIMULATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ECOSYSTEM; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84899844298     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4713     Document Type: Article

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