Local interactions predict large-scale pattern in empirically derived cellular automata

Nature

Volumn 413, Issue 6858, 2001, Pages 841-844

  Wooton, J T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CELLS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; SAND;

CELLULAR AUTOMATA;

NATURAL SCIENCES;

CELLULAR AUTOMATON; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; SPATIAL SCALE;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CELL; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; MODEL; MUSSEL; NATURAL SCIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SPECIES;

ANIMALS; BIVALVIA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0035950171     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35101595     Document Type: Article

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