The use of Markovian metapopulation models: Reducing the dimensionality of transition matrices by self-organizing Kohonen networks

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 192, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 271-285

  Griebeler, Eva Maria ^a   Seitz, Alfred ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Binning; Kohonen feature map; Markov chain; Neural network; Probability of extinction; Self organizing maps

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATRIX ALGEBRA; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

BINNING; KOHONEN FEATURE MAP; PROBABILITY OF EXTINCTION;

ECOLOGY;

EXTINCTION RISK; MARKOV CHAIN; METAPOPULATION; POPULATION ECOLOGY; POPULATION MODELING;

LEPIDOPTERA; LYCAENIDAE; MACULINEA ARION;

EID: 31544436299     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2005.06.004     Document Type: Article

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