An artificial life approach to host-parasite interaction

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 113-122

  Wilber, Patricia G ^a   Shapiro, Henry D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b University of New Mexico   (United States)

Author keywords

Eimeria; Host para site interactions; Individual based; Spatially explicit; Spermophilus; Stochastic

Indexed keywords

ENDOPARASITE; HOST DENSITY; HOST-PARASITE MODEL; TOWNSEND'S GROUND SQUIRREL;

APICOMPLEXA; SPERMOPHILUS TOWNSENDII;

EID: 0030811828     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3800(97)01957-1     Document Type: Article

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