An open source simulation model for soil and sediment bioturbation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Schiffers, Katja ^a,b   Teal, Lorna Rachel ^a,c   Travis, Justin Mark John ^a   Solan, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOTURBATION; CASE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCESS MODEL; SEDIMENT; SIMULATION; SOIL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; METHODOLOGY; POLYCHAETA; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOLOGY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POLYCHAETA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOIL; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 82655180431     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028028     Document Type: Article

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