Visual debugging: A way of analyzing, understanding and communicating bottom-up simulation models in ecology

Natural Resource Modeling

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 23-38

  Grimm, Volker ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ecological modeling; Hierarchy; Individual based; Pattern; Scientific communication

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037772445     PISSN: 08908575     EISSN: 19397445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-7445.2002.tb00078.x     Document Type: Article

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