Spatially explicit models of group foraging by herbivores: What can agent-based models offer?

Animal Research

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 419-428

  Dumont, Bertrand ^a   Hill, David R C ^b  

^a UMR1213 HERBIVORES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

Author keywords

Agent based model; Grazing; Individual based model; Social behaviour; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 10644225434     PISSN: 16273583     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/animres:2004028     Document Type: Article

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