Cooperation and competition along smooth environmental gradients

Ecology

Volumn 78, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 2004-2017

  Wilson, William G ^a,b   Nisbet, Roger M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellular automata; Colonization; Cooperation; Multiple equilibria; Population dynamics; Spatially explicit simulation

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR AUTOMATA; COLONIZATION; COMPETITION; HABITAT AMLIORATION; MODELLING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POSITIVE RECRUITMENT;

EID: 0031284546     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1997)078[2004:CACASE]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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