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- Plant strategies and the dynamics and structure of plant communities (1989) (776)
- Selection for Optimal Life Histories: The Effects of Age Structure (1974) (666)
- Optimal Reproductive Effort in Fluctuating Environments (1974) (632)
- Life-History Consequences of Natural Selection: Cole's Result Revisited (1973) (546)
- Chaos reduces species extinction by amplifying local population noise (1993) (340)
- The Adaptive Significance of Variations in Life History among Local Populations of Atlantic Salmon in North America (1975) (309)
- Chaos versus noisy periodicity: alternative hypotheses for childhood epidemics. (1990) (308)
- Discrete-time growth-dispersal models (1986) (304)
- Order and Chaos in Ecological Systems (1985) (237)
- Nearly one dimensional dynamics in an epidemic. (1985) (217)
- The Application of Optimal Control Theory to the General Life History Problem (1983) (212)
- Oscillations and chaos in epidemics: a nonlinear dynamic study of six childhood diseases in Copenhagen, Denmark. (1988) (201)
- Stretching and Folding in Lynx Fur Returns: Evidence for a Strange Attractor in Nature? (1984) (154)
- Chaos in ecological systems: The coals that Newcastle forgot. (1986) (150)
- ECOLOGICAL ABSTRACTION: THE CONSEQUENCES OF REDUCED DIMENSIONALITY IN ECOLOGICAL MODELS' (1981) (148)
- Competition, Foraging Energetics, and the Cost of Sociality in Three Species of Bees (1979) (146)
- Competition for nectar between introduced honey bees and native North American bees and ants. (1983) (141)
- The Adaptive Significance of Variations in Reproductive Habit in the Agavaceae II: Pollinator Foraging Behavior and Selection for Increased Reproductive Expenditure (1979) (136)
- Do Strange Attractors Govern Ecological Systems (1985) (127)
- Temperature regulation of honey bees (Apis mellifera) foraging in the Sonoran desert (1985) (113)
- Can nonlinear dynamics elucidate mechanisms in ecology and epidemiology? (1985) (104)
- Homage to the red queen. I. Coevolution of predators and their victims. (1978) (102)
- Effects of noise on some dynamical models in ecology (1986) (98)
- Selection for Optimal Life Histories. II: Multiple Equilibria and the Evolution of Alternative Reproductive Strategies (1977) (97)
- On the Ecological Meaning of Ratio (De Wit) Diagrams in Plant Ecology (1981) (84)
- CHANGING REPRODUCTIVE RATES AND POPULATION CYCLES IN LEMMINGS AND VOLES (1973) (83)
- The effects of seasonality on discrete models of population growth (1984) (82)
- Chaos in ecology (2001) (81)
- THE GEOMETRY OF A POPULATION CYCLE: A MECHANISTIC MODEL OF SNOWSHOE HARE DEMOGRAPHY (2001) (80)
- 8. Differential systems in ecology and epidemiology (1986) (76)
- The case for chaos in childhood epidemics. II. Predicting historical epidemics from mathematical models (1993) (73)
- Changing criteria for imposing order (1988) (71)
- The rainbow bridge: Hamiltonian limits and resonance in predator-prey dynamics (1999) (64)
- The adaptive significance of variations in reproductive habit in the Agavaceae (1977) (64)
- Population biology of infectious disease agents : R.M. Anderson and R.M. May (editors), Report of the Dahlem Workshop on population biology of infectious disease agents, Berlin, 1982, March 14–19, Springer-Verlag, Berlin (1982) (1984) (64)
- The co-evolution of social behavior and cranial morphology in sheep and goats (Bovidae, caprini) (1971) (64)
- Energy Allocation by an Annual Plant when the Effects of Seasonality on Growth and Reproduction are Decoupled (1982) (61)
- Homage to the red queen. II. Coevolutionary response to enrichment of exploitation ecosystems. (1978) (52)
- Period-doubling bifurcations and chaos in a detailed model of the peroxidase-oxidase reaction (1995) (48)
- Transient periodicity and episodic predictability in biological dynamics. (1993) (40)
- The Reproductive Biology of Agavaceae: I. Pollen and Nectar Production in Four Arizona Agaves (1977) (40)
- The Prospective Role of Mathematical Theory in Plant Ecology (1976) (39)
- Routes to Chaos in the Peroxidase−Oxidase Reaction: Period-Doubling and Period-Adding (1997) (38)
- INTRASPECIFIC COMBAT AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE CAPRINI (1968) (36)
- Equivalence of maximizing reproductive value and fitness in the case of reproductive strategies. (1979) (36)
- POPULATION CYCLES IN MAMMALS AND BIRDS : DOES PERIODICITY SCALE WITH BODY SIZE ? (1991) (36)
- Some observations on the evolution of reproductive rate and competitive ability in flowering plants. (1977) (34)
- Peroxidase-ROS interactions (2012) (31)
- A Note on the Theory of Reciprocal Altruism (1978) (26)
- Weakly dissipative predator-prey systems (1996) (22)
- Sub-harmonic resonance and multi-annual oscillations in northern mammals: A non-linear dynamical systems perspective (2001) (21)
- On Reproductive Value and Fitness (1981) (20)
- Transient periodicity in chaos (1993) (19)
- Routes to chaos in the peroxidase-oxidase reaction. 2. The fat torus scenario (1998) (17)
- Nonlinear Analyses of Periodic and Chaotic Time Series from the Peroxidase-Oxidase Reaction (1993) (16)
- Quasiperiodicity in a detailed model of the peroxidase–oxidase reaction (1996) (15)
- Character Displacement and the Evolution of the Hominidae (1968) (14)
- Periodic and Chaotic Dynamics in Childhood Infections (1988) (14)
- Chaos in Ecology and Epidemiology (1987) (13)
- Nonlinear Dynamics of the Peroxidase−Oxidase Reaction: I. Bistability and Bursting Oscillations at Low Enzyme Concentrations (2001) (12)
- Survival Rate of the Green Turtle, Chelonia mydas, Necessary to Maintain Stable Populations (1974) (12)
- Evolution, population dynamics, and stability: a comment. (1977) (12)
- Parametric dependence in model epidemics. I: Contact-related parameters (2007) (11)
- Secondary quasiperiodicity in the peroxidase–oxidase reaction (2002) (9)
- The co-evolution of social behavior and cranial morphology in sheep and goats (Bovidae, caprini) [by] William M. Schaffer and Charles A. Reed. (1972) (8)
- Using Chaos to Understand Biological Dynamics (1994) (6)
- Global dynamical properties of Lotka-Volterra systems by Y. Takeuchi, World Scientific, Singapore, 1996. $49.00 (cloth), xii + 302 pp. (1997) (6)
- The book that evaded the question (1995) (4)
- Parametric dependence in model epidemics. II: Non-contact rate-related parameters (2007) (3)
- Chaos in Childhood Epidemics (1989) (3)
- Additional Comments on Reproductive Strategies and Population Fluctuations in Mictorine Rodents (1979) (3)
- CHILDHOOD INFECTIONS - EXAMPLES OF 'CHAOS IN THE WILD' (1991) (2)
- Chaos in living systems: from clocks to chaos. (1989) (2)
- Controlling malaria: competition, seasonality and ‘slingshotting’ transgenic mosquitoes into natural populations (2009) (2)
- The peroxidase-oxidase reaction: A case for chaos in the biochemistry of the cell (1991) (2)
- Human population and carbon dioxide (2008) (1)
- Cholinergic therapy for autistic spectrum disorder (2012) (1)
- Cholinergic therapy for autistic spectrum disorders: Review and case report (2012) (1)
- Peroxidase-ROS interactions (2012) (0)
- Software Review Nlf: Nonlinear Forecasting for Dynamical Systems. for Ibm and Compati- Bles (0)
- Competition Among Social Species (2019) (0)
- Book reviews (1996) (0)
- Dynamical disease. Mathematical analysis of human illness: J. Bélaire, L. Glass, U. an der Heiden, and J. Milton, American Institute of Physics Press, Woodbury, NY, 1995. $40.00 (paper), 220 + ix pp (1996) (0)
- U.S. $47.10 (paper), 405 pp.C. Castillo-Chavez, Mathematical and Statistical Approaches to AIDS Epidemiology, Springer, Berlin (1989). (1992) (0)
- Book reviews (1992) (0)
- A Surfeit of Cycles (2009) (0)
- Nonlinear forecasting of non-uniform chaotic attractors in an enzyme reaction (1994) (0)
- Book reviews (1997) (0)
- Deterministic Chaos: An Introduction. Heinz Georg Schuster (1989) (0)
- Modeling Peroxidase-Oxidase Interactions (2011) (0)
- HERAPY FOR A UTISTIC S PECTRUM D ISORDERS : R EVIEW AND C ASE R EPORT (2011) (0)
- Comments on Reproductive Strategies and Population Fluctuations in Microtine Rodents (2017) (0)
- Biospeleology Cave Life: Evolution and Ecology David C. Culver (1983) (0)
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