Grazing Models

Encyclopedia of Ecology, Five-Volume Set

Volumn 1-5, Issue , 2008, Pages 1773-1782

  Wiegand, T ^a   Wiegand, K ^b   Putz S ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Classical predator prey models; Degradation; Disturbance; Dual stability; Environmental fluctuations; Equilibrium; Grazing system; Individual based models; Nonequilibrium; Spatial patterns; Spatially explicit models; Succession

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855240436     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-008045405-4.00207-X     Document Type: Chapter

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