The concepts of emergent and collective properties in individual-based models - Summary and outlook of the Bornhöved case studies

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 186, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 489-501

  Reuter, Hauke ^a   Hölker, Franz ^b   Middelhoff, Ulrike ^c   Jopp, Fred ^d   Eschenbach, Christiane ^e,f   Breckling, Broder ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^d FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^f NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bornh ved; Collective properties; Community interaction; Dispersal; Ecological complexity; Emergent properties; Energy budget; Ground arthropods; Individual based model; Plant growth; Rodent cycles; Root development; Self organisation

Indexed keywords

AQUACULTURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANTS (BOTANY);

FOOD WEB INTERACTIONS; HIERARCHY THEORY; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODELING; SCALE-DEPENDENT INTERACTION SYSTEMS;

ECOLOGY;

COMPLEXITY; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODEL; SELF ORGANIZATION;

ECOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANTS; WATER BIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; RODENTIA;

EID: 23244449246     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2005.02.014     Document Type: Article

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