A general model for simulating the effects of landscape heterogeneity and disturbance on community patterns

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 147, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 171-197

  Plotnick, Roy E ^a   Gardner, Robert H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellular automata; Community dynamics; Disturbance; Heterogeneity; Landscape; Lattice models; Spatial simulation

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DISTURBANCE; HETEROGENEITY; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODEL;

EID: 0037081452     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3800(01)00418-5     Document Type: Article

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