Regularity underlies erratic population abundances in marine ecosystems

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 12, Issue 107, 2015, Pages

  Sun, Jie ^a,d   Cornelius, Sean P ^b,c,d   Janssen, John ^f   Gray, Kimberly A ^e   Motter, Adilson E ^d  

^a CLARKSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Northwestern University   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex systems; Growth rate statistics; Nonlinear dynamics; Population dynamics; Stochastic processes; Time series

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; GROWTH RATE; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RANDOM PROCESSES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TIME SERIES;

DEMOGRAPHIC STOCHASTICITY; DOUBLE EXPONENTIAL; ECOSYSTEM LEVELS; INTERSPECIES CORRELATIONS; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION DENSITIES; POPULATION GROWTH RATES; POPULATION VARIABILITY;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; GROWTH RATE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GROWTH; SPECIES DOMINANCE; SPECIES EXTINCTION; STOCHASTIC MODEL; ANIMAL; AQUATIC SPECIES; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84930750919     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2015.0235     Document Type: Article

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