Exploring community assembly through an individual-based model for trophic interactions

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 220, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 23-39

  Giacomini, Henrique Corrêa ^a   De Marco Jr , Paulo ^b   Petrere Jr , Miguel ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Alometry; Community assembly; Ecological tradeoffs; Individual based modeling; Localized interactions; Predation

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION (WAVES); FLOW INTERACTIONS; THEOREM PROVING;

ALOMETRY; COMMUNITY ASSEMBLY; ECOLOGICAL TRADEOFFS; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODELING; LOCALIZED INTERACTIONS; PREDATION;

ECOLOGY;

ALLOMETRY; COEXISTENCE; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODEL; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NICHE PARTITIONING; PREDATION; TRADE-OFF; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

EID: 56749170692     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2008.09.005     Document Type: Article

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