Good practices for sharing ecological models

BioScience

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 59-64

  Kettenring, Karin M ^a   Martinez, Barbara T ^a   Starfield, Anthony M ^a   Getz, Wayne M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological modeling; Expert systems; Methodology for model sharing; Model evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 30544451959     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2006)056[0059:GPFSEM]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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