Reconnecting environs to their environment

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 222, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 2393-2403

  Borrett, S R ^a   Freeze, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Average path length; Food web; Indirect effects; Input output analysis; Network aggradation; Network environ analysis; Network homogenization; Random walks

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE PATH LENGTH; FOOD WEBS; INDIRECT EFFECTS; INPUT OUTPUT ANALYSIS; NETWORK ENVIRON ANALYSIS; RANDOM WALK;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; USER INTERFACES;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIOINDICATOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; HOMOGENEITY; INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NETWORK ANALYSIS; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 79956285265     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2010.10.015     Document Type: Article

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