Ecosystems as evolutionary complex systems: Network analysis of fitness models

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 693-700

  Fath, Brian D ^a   Grant, W E ^b  

^a TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Boolean networks; Coevolution; Ecological modeling; Fitness landscapes; Network analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

BOOLEAN NETWORKS; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOLOGICAL NETWORK ANALYSIS; FITNESS LANDSCAPES;

ECOSYSTEMS;

COEVOLUTION; COMPLEXITY; FITNESS; FOOD WEB; NETWORK ANALYSIS;

EID: 33845695689     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2005.12.023     Document Type: Article

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