Multi-criteria assessment of ecological process models

Ecology

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 538-553

  Reynolds, Joel H ^a   Ford, E David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Binary error measures; Canopy competition; Evolutionary computation; Genetic algorithms; Individual based models; Model assessment; Model validation; Multiple criteria; Pareto Optimality; POMAC; Simulated evolution; WHORL

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032982483     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1999)080[0538:MCAOEP]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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