Stochastic model for population migration and the growth of human settlements during the Neolithic transition

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Fedotov, Sergei ^a   Moss, David ^a   Campos, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; CROPS; CULTIVATION; DEGRADATION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LANDFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; POPULATION STATISTICS; STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING; SULFATE MINERALS;

CROP PRODUCTION; HUMAN SETTLEMENTS; LAND DEGRADATION; NON-LINEAR INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; NUMERICA L RESULTS; POPULATION DENSITIES; POPULATION MODELING; RIVER VALLEYS; SOIL NUTRIENTS; TRANSIENT PHENOMENON;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 49549095790     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.78.026107     Document Type: Article

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