Chaos in a long-term experiment with a plankton community.

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Published in Nature on February 14, 2008

Authors

Elisa Benincà1, Jef Huisman, Reinhard Heerkloss, Klaus D Jöhnk, Pedro Branco, Egbert H Van Nes, Marten Scheffer, Stephen P Ellner

Author Affiliations

1: Aquatic Microbiology, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Nieuwe Achtergracht 127, 1018 WS Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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