Ecological Models of Language Competition

Biological Theory

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 164-173

  Kandler, Anne ^a   Steele, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

carrying capacity; language coexistence; language competition; language extinction; mathematical modeling; reaction diffusion competition model; spatial heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

EID: 66049125397     PISSN: 15555542     EISSN: 15555550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/biot.2008.3.2.164     Document Type: Article

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