An artificial life-based vegetation modelling approach for biodiversity research

Nature-Inspired Informatics for Intelligent Applications and Knowledge Discovery: Implications in Business, Science, and Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 68-118

  Ch'ng, Eugene ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

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