The deployment of artificial reef ecosystem: Modelling, simulation and application

Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 663-675

  Lan, Chun Hsiung ^a   Hsui, Che Yu ^a  

^a NANHUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Artificial reef communities; Complexity; Decision support system; Fractal dimension; Spatial configuration

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOMASS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSERVATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; ECOSYSTEMS; FORTRAN (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); FRACTALS;

ARTIFICIAL REEF COMMUNITIES (ARC); DEPLOYMENT OF ARTIFICIAL REEF COMMUNITIES (DARC); FRACTAL DIMENSION (FD); SPATIAL CONFIGURATION;

REEFS;

EID: 33744809519     PISSN: 1569190X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.simpat.2005.10.011     Document Type: Article

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