Identifying key species in ecosystems with stochastic sensitivity analysis

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 222, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 2542-2551

  Livi, Carmen Maria ^a   Jordán, Ferenc ^a   Lecca, Paola ^a   Okey, Thomas A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b West Coast Vancouver Island Aquatic Management Board ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Food web; ISEM09; Species importance; Stochastic dynamics; Topology

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL COMMUNITY; BIOTIC INTERACTIONS; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; DYNAMICAL SIMULATION; ECOLOGICAL NETWORKS; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEM MODEL; FOOD WEBS; INTERACTION STRENGTH; ISEM09; NEARSHORES; POPULATION SIZES; PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND , ALASKA; QUANTITATIVE APPROACH; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; SIMULATION-BASED; SMALL POPULATION; SPECIES IMPORTANCE; STOCHASTIC DYNAMICS; STOCHASTIC SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY; STRUCTURAL ASPECTS; TOPOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; TROPHIC GROUP; TROPHIC LEVEL;

CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSERVATION; DYNAMIC MODELS; ECOSYSTEMS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; POPULATION STATISTICS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TOPOLOGY; USER INTERFACES;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

ECOSYSTEM MODELING; FOOD WEB; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; IDENTIFICATION KEY; JUVENILE; KEYSTONE SPECIES; POPULATION SIZE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECIES CONSERVATION; STOCHASTICITY; TOPOLOGY; TROPHIC LEVEL; VULNERABILITY;

ALASKA; PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND; UNITED STATES;

CLUPEIDAE;

EID: 79959340332     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2010.09.025     Document Type: Article

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