Modelling environmental influences on wanderer spiders in the Langhe region (Piemonte - NW italy)

Journal of Numerical Analysis, Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 3, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 193-209

  Chatterjee, Samrat ^b   Isaiay, Marco ^a   Bonay, Francesca ^a   Badinoy, Guido ^a   Venturino, Ezio ^b  

^a Sede di Anatomia Comparata   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Equilibria; Predator prey model; Stochastic differential equation; Stochastic stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 72949106382     PISSN: 17908140     EISSN: 17908159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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