MOAB: A spatially explicit, individual-based expert system for creating animal foraging models

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 29-41

  Carter, Jacoby ^a,b   Finn, John T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior modeling; Expert system; Geographic information system; Individual based modeling; Mephitis mephitis; Red fox; Striped skunk; Vulpes vulpes

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MODEL; MOVEMENT;

MEPHITIS MEPHITIS; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 0033168737     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3800(99)00044-7     Document Type: Article

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