Optimization of Search Strategies in Managing Biological Invasions: A Simulation Approach

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 181-199

  Hester, Susan ^a   Cacho, Oscar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

dispersal; evolutionary algorithm; genetic algorithm; pest eradication; spatially explicit simulation model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856102066     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: 15497860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807039.2012.632307     Document Type: Article

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