An individual based model of a sea turtle population to analyze effects of age dependent mortality

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 198, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 174-182

  Mazaris, Antonios D ^a   Broder, Breckling ^b   Matsinos, Yiannis G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Critical stages; Individual based model; Mortality; Sea turtle; Virtual population

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEMS; LIFE CYCLE; MARINE BIOLOGY; POPULATION STATISTICS;

CRITICAL STAGES; INDIVIDUAL BASED MODEL; MORTALITY; SEA TURTLE; VIRTUAL POPULATION;

CONSERVATION;

AGE CLASS; ANALYTICAL METHOD; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DEMOGRAPHY; LIFE CYCLE; MORTALITY; NATURE CONSERVATION; PELAGIC ENVIRONMENT; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SIMULATION; SURVIVAL; TURTLE;

CHELONIIDAE; TESTUDINES;

EID: 33748171173     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2006.04.012     Document Type: Article

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