Population dynamics and spatial scale: Effects of system size on population persistence

Ecology

Volumn 80, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 2492-2507

  Donalson, Douglas D ^a   Nisbet, Roger M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Heuristic asynchronous discrete event simulation; Individual based models; Lotka Volterra model; Persistence; Predator prey; Scaling; Spatial patterns; Spatial processes; Spatially explicit models; Stability; Stochastic birth death model

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; LOTKA-VOLTERRA MODEL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 0033406121     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1999)080[2492:PDASSE]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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