Adaptation of linguistic laws to ecological models

Kybernetes

Volumn 29, Issue 9-10, 2000, Pages 1306-1323

  Sastre Vazquez, P ^a,b   Uso Dpmenech J L ^a   Mateu, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL CENTRO DE LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cybernetics; Ecology; Mathematical modeh

Indexed keywords

CYBERNETICS; MODELING LANGUAGES; SEMANTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOLOGICAL MODELS; FORMAL MATHEMATICAL LANGUAGES; LITERARY TEXTS; MATHEMATICAL MODEH; REGRESSION EQUATION; SEMANTIC LEVELS; SEPARATING UNIT;

ECOLOGY;

EID: 0034553659     PISSN: 0368492X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03684920010346392     Document Type: Article

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