Cognitive landscape and information: New perspectives to investigate the ecological complexity

BioSystems

Volumn 79, Issue 1-3 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 235-240

  Farina, Almo ^a   Bogaert, Jan ^b   Schipani, Ileana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cognitive landscape; Cognitive matrix; Individual based landscape; Information; Neutral based landscape; Observer based landscape; Scaling

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; COMPLEXITY; LANDSCAPE; PERCEPTION;

CONFERENCE PAPER; ECOSYSTEM; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; OBSERVER VARIATION; SCALE UP; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

PRIMATES;

EID: 11844289651     PISSN: 03032647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2004.09.018     Document Type: Conference Paper

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