A metric for quantifying the oscillatory tendency of consumer-resource interactions

American Naturalist

Volumn 185, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 87-99

  Johnson, Christopher A ^a,b   Amarasekare, Priyanga ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumer resource oscillations; Feedback; Interaction strength; Saturating functional responses; Self limitation; Stability

Indexed keywords

CONSUMER-RESOURCE INTERACTION; DEVELOPMENTAL STABILITY; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; FOOD WEB; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; PERSISTENCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD CHAIN; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84920461345     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/679279     Document Type: Article

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