Using social network analysis tools in ecology: Markov process transition models applied to the seasonal trophic network dynamics of the Chesapeake Bay

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 220, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 3133-3140

  Johnson, Jeffrey C ^a   Luczkovich, Joseph J ^a   Borgatti, Stephen P ^b   Snijders, Tom A B ^c,d  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ascendency; Continuous time Markov model; Dynamics; Estuary; Network visualization; Statistical network analysis

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL CYCLE; ASCENDENCY; CARBON FLOW NETWORKS; CHESAPEAKE BAY; CLOSED SYSTEMS; COMPLEX NETWORKS; CONTINUOUS TIME MARKOV CHAIN; CONTINUOUS-TIME MARKOV MODEL; DYNAMIC STRUCTURAL CHANGES; ECOSYSTEM COMPONENTS; EXTERNAL INFLUENCES; EXTERNAL INPUT; FOOD WEBS; HUMAN IMPACT; IN-NETWORK; LARVAL FISHES; LINK DENSITY; NETWORK DYNAMICS; NETWORK GRAPHICS; NETWORK VISUALIZATION; OUTDEGREE; PELAGIC SPECIES; REDUCED COMPLEXITY; SEASONAL CHANGES; SEASONAL CYCLE; SEASONAL DYNAMICS; SIMULATION-BASED; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL APPROACH; STATISTICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL NETWORK ANALYSIS; SYSTEM COMPLEXITY; SYSTEM RESPONSE; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL CHANGES; TRANSITION MODEL; TROPHIC NETWORK; TROPHIC STRUCTURE; TWO DIMENSIONAL SPACES; VISUAL ANALYSIS; VISUAL ASSESSMENTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTINUOUS TIME SYSTEMS; DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEMS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; MARKOV PROCESSES; OCEAN HABITATS; SEDIMENTS; SOLAR ENERGY; STATISTICS; VISUALIZATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

BENTHOS; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; FOOD WEB; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; MARKOV CHAIN; PELAGIC ECOSYSTEM; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOCIAL NETWORK; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VISUALIZATION;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHRYSAORA QUINQUECIRRHA; PISCES;

EID: 70350117802     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2009.06.037     Document Type: Article

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