Adding realism to foraging arena predictions of trophic flow rates in Ecosim ecosystem models: Shared foraging arenas and bout feeding

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 209, Issue 2-4, 2007, Pages 342-350

  Walters, Carl ^a   Christensen, Villy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bout and continuous feeding; Ecopath; Ecosim; Functional response; Predator prey modeling; Shared foraging arena; Spatial temporal overlap

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FLOW RATE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PATHOLOGY;

ECOSIM ECOSYSTEM MODELS; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSES; PREDATOR PREY MODELINGS; SHARED FORAGING ARENA; SPATIAL TEMPORAL OVERLAPS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ECOSYSTEM MODELING; FOOD WEB; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; PREDATION; PREDICTION; SOFTWARE; TROPHIC ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 35948964432     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2007.06.025     Document Type: Article

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