Modelling predation as a capped rate stochastic process, with applications to fish recruitment

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 477-487

  James, Alex ^a   Baxter, Paul D ^b   Pitchford, Jonathan W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capped stochastic processes; Fisheries recruitment models; Queueing theory models

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; AQUACULTURE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FISH; KINETICS; LARVA; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; PREDATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; AQUACULTURE; FISHES; KINETICS; LARVA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 33747116683     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2005.0063     Document Type: Article

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