Modelling population and community dynamics with qualitative reasoning

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 195, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 114-128

  Salles, Paulo ^a   Bredeweg, Bert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ecological modelling; Population and community dynamics; Qualitative reasoning

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGY; FUZZY SETS; VEGETATION;

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; POPULATION AND COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; QUALITATIVE REASONING; SYMBIOSIS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

EID: 33646157948     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2005.11.014     Document Type: Article

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