Inherent high correlation of individual motility enhances population dispersal in a heterotrophic, planktonic protist

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Menden Deuer, Susanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

CORRELATION TIME; ECOLOGICAL PROCESS; EMPIRICAL DATA; MODEL PREDICTION; MODELING SIMULATION; MOVEMENT BEHAVIOUR; POPULATION DISPERSAL; QUANTITATIVE DATA; RANDOM WALKERS; SPREAD OF DISEASE;

POPULATION DISTRIBUTION;

ARTICLE; CELL MOTION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL KINETICS; NONHUMAN; PLANKTON; POPULATION DISPERSAL; POPULATION MOVEMENT PATTERN; PROTOZOON; STATISTICAL MODEL; VELOCITY; VERTICAL POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CYTOLOGY; DINOFLAGELLATE; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

PROTISTA;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CELL MOVEMENT; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DINOFLAGELLIDA; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MARKOV CHAINS; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANKTON; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 78349250549     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000942     Document Type: Article

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