Individual-based modeling of ecological and evolutionary processes

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

Volumn 36, Issue , 2005, Pages 147-168

  DeAngelis, Donald L ^a   Mooij, Wolf M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Emergent properties; Learning; Phenotypic variation; Size dependent; Spatially explicit

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL THEORY; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODEL;

EID: 30344446670     PISSN: 00664162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.36.102003.152644     Document Type: Review

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