Community assembly in a model ecosystem

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 103, Issue 2-3, 1997, Pages 267-285

  Hraber, Peter T ^a   Milne, Bruce T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive agents; Community ecology; Genetic algorithms; Invasion; Neutral evolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030680969     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3800(97)00111-7     Document Type: Article

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