Adaptation of an ecological territorial model to street gang spatial patterns in los angeles

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 3223-3244

  Smith, Laura M ^a   Bertozzi, Andrea L ^a   Brantingham, P Jeffrey ^a   Tita, George E ^b   Valasik, Matthew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Densities; Ecological territory; Networks; Partial differential equations; Spatial patterns

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859520497     PISSN: 10780947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/dcds.2012.32.3223     Document Type: Review

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