Optimized simulation as an aid to modelling, with an application to the study of a population of tsetse flies, Glossina morsitans morsitans (Diptera: Glossinidae)

Bulletin of Entomological Research

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 425-435

  Hargrove, J W ^a   Williams, B C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

^b Box 30606   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; OPTIMIZATION; POPULATION MODELING; TSETSE FLY;

GLOSSINA MORSITANS;

EID: 0031819816     PISSN: 00074853     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0007485300042164     Document Type: Article

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