Gaining insight into food webs reconstructed by the inverse method

Journal of Marine Systems

Volumn 60, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 153-166

  Kones, Julius K ^a   Soetaert, Karline ^b   van Oevelen, Dick ^b   Owino, John O ^a   Mavuti, Kenneth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Carbon flow; Factor analysis (FA); Food webs; Inverse method; Mean solution; Parsimonious solution; Principal components (PC)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; FOOD PRODUCTS; INVERSE KINEMATICS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

CARBON FLOW; FACTOR ANALYSIS (FA); FOOD WEBS; INVERSE METHOD; MEAN SOLUTION; PARSIMONIOUS SOLUTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS (PC);

ECOLOGY;

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FLOW PATTERN; FOOD WEB; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; FRENCH POLYNESIA; GULF OF RIGA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; POLYNESIA; TAKAPOTO; TAKAPOTO LAGOON; TUAMOTU ARCHIPELAGO;

EID: 33645866170     PISSN: 09247963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmarsys.2005.12.002     Document Type: Article

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