Higher-order interactions stabilize dynamics in competitive network models

Nature

Volumn 548, Issue 7666, 2017, Pages 210-213

  Grilli, Jacopo ^a   Barabás, György ^a   Michalska Smith, Matthew J ^a   Allesina, Stefano ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; IMMIGRATION; NETWORK ANALYSIS; NEW SPECIES; PARAMETERIZATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMPETITION; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEEDLING; SPECIES COEXISTENCE; TREE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOTA; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; PLANT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BIOTA; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 85027333666     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature23273     Document Type: Article

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