Parameterizing, evaluating and comparing metapopulation models with data from individual-based simulations

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 199, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 476-485

  Hilker, Frank M ^a   Hinsch, Martin ^b   Poethke, Hans Joachim ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Grid based; Incidence function model; Individual based model; Metapopulation; Model comparison; Parameterization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POPULATION STATISTICS;

GRID-BASED; INCIDENCE FUNCTION MODEL; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODEL; METAPOPULATION; MODEL COMPARISON;

ECOLOGY;

DATA PROCESSING; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODEL; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; METAPOPULATION; PARAMETERIZATION; POPULATION MODELING;

INSECTA;

EID: 33750628130     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2005.06.011     Document Type: Article

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