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The winner takes it all: how semelparous insects can become periodical

The aim of this short note is to give a simple explanation for the remarkable periodicity of Magicicada species, which appear as adults only every 13 or 17 years, depending on the region. We show that a combination of two types of density dependence may drive, for large classes of initial conditions...

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Autores principales: Diekmann, Odo, Planqué, Robert
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7012985/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31030298
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00285-019-01362-3