Virtual experimentation: Conceptual models and hypothesis testing of ecological scenarios

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 59-71

  Parysow, Pablo ^a   Gertner, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Conceptual models; Ecological scenarios; Environmental scenarios; Experimentation; Hypothesis testing; Mechanistic models

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030949628     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3800(96)01937-0     Document Type: Article

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