Stochastic von Bertalanffy models, with applications to fish recruitment

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 244, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 640-655

  Lv, Qiming ^a   Pitchford, Jonathan W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

First hitting time density; Individual based models; Stochastic differential equations

Indexed keywords

FISH; GROWTH MODELING; GROWTH RATE; MORTALITY; NUMERICAL METHOD; RECRUITMENT; STOCHASTICITY; VON BERTALANFFY EQUATION;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; FISH; GROWTH CURVE; GROWTH RATE; INDIVIDUAL BASED POPULATION MODEL; MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STOCHASTIC MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; VON BERTALANFFY MODEL;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FISHES; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROBABILITY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 33846411049     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2006.09.009     Document Type: Article

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