Zooplankton encounters in patchy particle distributions

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 220, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 596-604

  Cianelli, Daniela ^a   Uttieri, Marco ^a   Strickler, J Rudi ^b   Zambianchi, Enrico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlated random walks; Encounters; Fractal dimension; Patches; Random walks; Self avoiding random walks

Indexed keywords

ALGAE CONTROL; FRACTALS; PARTIAL DISCHARGES; PHYTOPLANKTON; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CORRELATED RANDOM WALKS; ENCOUNTERS; PATCHES; RANDOM WALKS; SELF-AVOIDING RANDOM WALKS;

FRACTAL DIMENSION;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; PATCHINESS; PHYTOPLANKTON; SWIMMING BEHAVIOR; ZOOPLANKTON;

COPEPODA;

EID: 58849095726     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2008.10.015     Document Type: Article

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