Lotka-Volterra competition models for sessile organisms

Ecology

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1134-1143

  Spencer, Matthew ^a   Tanner, Jason E ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b SOUTH AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coral reefs; Lotka Volterra competition; Markov models; Maximum likelihood; Statistical modeling

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); CORAL REEF; LOTKA-VOLTERRA MODEL; MARKOV CHAIN; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; SESSILE SPECIES; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; HYDROZOA; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; TIME;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; HYDROZOA; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 42949094311     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-0941.1     Document Type: Article

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