Modeling spatiotemporal dynamics of vole populations in Europe and America

Mathematical Biosciences

Volumn 223, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 47-57

  Upadhyay, Ranjit Kumar ^a   Kumari, Nitu ^b   Rai, Vikas ^c  

^a INDIAN SCHOOL OF MINES   (India)

^b SSLNT Mahila College   (India)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Chaos; Generalist predator; Spatial heterogeneity; Spatiotemporal dynamics; Specialist predator; Vole populations

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION DRIVEN; DYNAMICAL PATTERN; DYNAMICAL SHIFTS; FENNOSCANDIA; FIELD STUDIES; GENERALIST PREDATORS; MASS EXTINCTION; MODEL SYSTEM; POPULATION DENSITIES; SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; SPACE AND TIME; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY; SPATIAL LOCATION; SPATIO-TEMPORAL DYNAMICS; THEORETICAL STUDY; UNIFIED FRAMEWORK;

CHAOTIC SYSTEMS; DYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS; SIMULATORS;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

CHAOTIC DYNAMICS; HETEROGENEITY; MASS EXTINCTION; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RODENT; SIMULATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL STUDY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ARTICLE; CHAOTIC DYNAMICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT; EUROPE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; NORTH AMERICA; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISPERSAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; SEASONAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; SIMULATION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; VOLE;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EUROPE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NORTH AMERICA; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SEASONS;

EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA;

ANIMALIA; MURIDAE; RODENTIA;

EID: 72449122768     PISSN: 00255564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mbs.2009.10.006     Document Type: Article

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