A pattern-oriented modelling approach to simulating populations of grey partridge

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 221, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 729-737

  Topping, Christopher John ^a,b   Høye, Toke Thomas ^a,b   Odderskær, Peter ^a   Aebischer, Nicholas J ^c  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b Centre for Integrated Population Ecology   (Denmark)

^c GAME CONSERVANCY TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agent based model; ODdox; Parameter fitting; Perdix perdix; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

AGENT-BASED MODEL; AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES; AGROCHEMICAL USE; COMPLEX NATURE; FIELD CONDITIONS; FIELD DATA; HISTORICAL DATA; INPUT PARAMETER; ITERATIVE PROCESS; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURES; MODEL DEVELOPMENT; MODEL OUTPUTS; NEW PROTOCOL; NON-LINEAR; ODDOX; OUTPUT SIGNAL; PARAMETER FITTING; PERFORMANCE CRITERION; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION REGULATION; PREDICTIVE POWER; SPATIO-TEMPORAL; SYSTEM PROPERTY; TESTING MODELS; UNDERLYING MECHANISM; WILDLIFE SPECIES;

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; COMPLEXATION; POPULATION STATISTICS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; AGROCHEMICAL; GAMEBIRD; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MODEL TEST; MORTALITY; OVERWINTERING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION MODELING;

PERDIX PERDIX;

EID: 74849140817     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2009.11.004     Document Type: Article

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