Modelling of spatio-temporal population dynamics of earthworms under wetland conditions-An integrated approach

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 220, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 3647-3657

  Vorpahl, Peter ^a   Moenickes, Sylvia ^b   Richter, Otto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cellular automaton; Earthworms; Finite volumes; Integrated model; Leslie matrices; Life cycle; Lumbricids; Population dynamics; Soil water dynamics

Indexed keywords

EARTHWORMS; FINITE VOLUMES; INTEGRATED MODEL; LESLIE MATRICES; LUMBRICIDS; SOIL WATER DYNAMICS;

CELLULAR AUTOMATA; DYNAMICS; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; GEOLOGIC MODELS; LIFE CYCLE; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; ROBOTS; SOIL MOISTURE; TEMPERATURE; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES); UNDERWATER SOILS; WETLANDS;

HYDRAULIC MODELS;

AGE STRUCTURE; CELLULAR AUTOMATON; DISPERSION; EARTHWORM; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; HUMIDITY; INTEGRATED APPROACH; MATRIC POTENTIAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION ECOLOGY; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WETLAND;

LUMBRICIDAE;

EID: 70449512104     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2009.03.012     Document Type: Article

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