Abrupt community transitions and cyclic evolutionary dynamics in complex food webs
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Theoretical Biology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0022-5193
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2013.08.003