The need for stochastic replication of ecological neural networks

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 362, Issue 1479, 2007, Pages 455-460

  Tosh, Colin R ^a   Ruxton, Graeme D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alternate states; Ecology; Multiple attractors; Neural networks; Stochastic models

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; STOCHASTICITY;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM;

ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER);

EID: 34247133122     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2006.1973     Document Type: Article

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