title: On the concept of attractor for community-dynamical processes I: the case of unstructured populations.
abstract: We introduce a notion of attractor adapted to dynamical processes as they are studied in community-ecological models and their computer simulations. This attractor concept is modeled after that of Ruelle as presented in [11] and [12]. It incorporates the fact that in an immigration-free community populations can go extinct at low values of their densities.
authors.affiliation: Section Theoretical Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Evolutionary and Ecological Sciences, University of Leiden, Kaiserstraat 63, 2311, GP Leiden, The Netherlands. frans@tiem.utk.edu
authors.forename: F J A
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: Jacobs
authors.forename: J A J
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Metz
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003198:Computer Simulation; D017753:Ecosystem; D008954:Models, Biological; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D011156:Population Density; D011157:Population Dynamics; D009626:Terminology as Topic