The ants' garden: Qualitative models of complex interactions between populations

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 194, Issue 1-3 SPEC. ISS., 2006, Pages 90-101

  Salles, Paulo ^a   Bredeweg, Bert ^b   Bensusan, Nurit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ants' garden; Causality; Community ecology; Interactions between populations; Qualitative reasoning

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIA; EDUCATION; FUNGI; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

ANTS' GARDEN; CAUSALITY; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; INTERACTIONS BETWEEN POPULATIONS; QUALITATIVE REASONING;

ECOLOGY;

ANT; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; FUNGUS; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FORMICIDAE; FUNGI;

EID: 33644693088     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2005.10.004     Document Type: Conference Paper

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