Limit Cycles in Competition Communities. Gilpin, M. E. The American Naturalist, 109(965):51--60, 1975. ArticleType: research-article / Full publication date: Jan. - Feb., 1975 / Copyright © 1975 The University of Chicago PressPaper abstract bibtex \textlessp\textgreaterA three-species Lotka-Volterra competition community may exhibit population oscillations of a neutral or undamped nature. Nontransitive interference competition, in which 1 can exclude 2, 2 can exclude 3, but 3 can exclude 1, is the underlying mechanism. If immigration, incomplete spatial overlap, or any other mechanism prevents extinction, then such a three-species system must go into true limit cycles. For higher-dimension systems, limit cycles are more likely in communities with an odd number of species. Such limit cycles are most likely to be found in the tropics. A cautionary moral is given: simple competition systems that appear to be unstable and random may be stable and deterministic.
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title = {Limit {Cycles} in {Competition} {Communities}},
volume = {109},
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abstract = {{\textless}p{\textgreater}A three-species Lotka-Volterra competition community may exhibit population oscillations of a neutral or undamped nature. Nontransitive interference competition, in which 1 can exclude 2, 2 can exclude 3, but 3 can exclude 1, is the underlying mechanism. If immigration, incomplete spatial overlap, or any other mechanism prevents extinction, then such a three-species system must go into true limit cycles. For higher-dimension systems, limit cycles are more likely in communities with an odd number of species. Such limit cycles are most likely to be found in the tropics. A cautionary moral is given: simple competition systems that appear to be unstable and random may be stable and deterministic.},
number = {965},
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journal = {The American Naturalist},
author = {Gilpin, Michael E.},
year = {1975},
note = {ArticleType: research-article / Full publication date: Jan. - Feb., 1975 / Copyright © 1975 The University of Chicago Press},
pages = {51--60}
}
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