Spread of an ant-dispersed annual herb: An individual-based simulation study on population development of Melampyrum pratense L.

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 203, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 424-438

  Winkler, Eckart ^a   Heinken, Thilo ^b  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Individual based model; Melampyrum pratense; Pattern oriented parameter estimation; Plant animal mutualism; Seed dispersal; Spatially explicit modelling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORESTRY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PLANTS (BOTANY); SEED;

MELAMPYRUM PRATENSE; PATTERN-ORIENTED PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PLANT-ANIMAL MUTUALISM; SEED DISPERSAL; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT MODELING;

ECOLOGY;

COLONIZATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HERB; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODEL; MUTUALISM; MYRMECOCHORY; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION MODELING; RANGE EXPANSION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY; WOODLAND;

ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; HERBS; SEEDS; SIMULATION;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

ANIMALIA; FORMICIDAE; MELAMPYRUM PRATENSE; OROBANCHACEAE;

EID: 34047102373     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2006.12.006     Document Type: Article

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