Community processes as emergent properties: Modelling multilevel interaction in small mammals communities

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 186, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 427-446

  Reuter, Hauke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bank voles; Clethrionomys glareolus; Emergent properties; Individual based model; Population oscillations; Rodent cycles

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

BIOCOENOSIS; FOOD-WEB; RODENTS SPECIES; SELF-ORGANIZATION PROCESSES;

ECOLOGY;

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; FOOD WEB; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODEL; POPULATION CYCLE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RODENT;

AGRICULTURE; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; WORLD;

CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; FAGUS; MAMMALIA; MURIDAE; RODENTIA;

EID: 23244448258     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2005.02.011     Document Type: Article

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