Species fluctuations sustained by a cyclic succession at the edge of chaos

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 20, 2015, Pages 6389-6394

  Benincà, Elisa ^a,d,e   Ballantine, Bill ^b   Ellner, Stephen P ^c   Huisman, Jef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^e WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chaos; Coexistence; Cyclic succession; Rock paper scissors dynamics; Rocky intertidal community

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BARNACLE; BROWN ALGA; CHAOTIC DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEM; MUSSEL; NONHUMAN; PERIODICITY; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SESSILE SPECIES; SPECIES COEXISTENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIVALVE; NEW ZEALAND; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME FACTOR;

ALGAE; THORACICA;

ANIMALS; BIVALVIA; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEW ZEALAND; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PHAEOPHYTA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; THORACICA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84929451843     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1421968112     Document Type: Article

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