What can habitat preference models tell us? Tests using a virtual trout population

Ecological Applications

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1580-1594

  Railsback, Steven F ^a,b   Stauffer, Howard B ^b   Harvey, Bret C ^c  

^a Railsback and Associates   (United States)

^b HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PACIFIC SOUTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Complexity; Habitat modeling; Habitat preference; Habitat quality; Habitat selection; Individual based model; Trout; Virtual ecology

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FITNESS; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT SELECTION; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODEL; SALMONID;

ANIMALIA; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 1642269978     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/02-5051     Document Type: Article

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