A strategy to improve the contribution of complex simulation models to ecological theory

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 185, Issue 2-4, 2005, Pages 153-164

  Van Nes, Egbert H ^a   Scheffer, Marten ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bifurcation analysis; Complex models; Individual based models; Simple models

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEMS;

ECOLOGICAL THEORY; SPATIAL HETEROGENIETY; STATE VARIABLES;

ECOLOGY;

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODEL;

EID: 17644371384     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2004.12.001     Document Type: Review

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