Maintenance of species diversity by predation in the tierra system

Artificial Life XII: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, ALIFE 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 533-540

  Shao, Jie ^a   Ray, Thomas S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL THEORY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT; FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES; GLOBAL PATTERNS; IN-LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS; PREDATOR POPULATIONS; PREY SPECIES;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84860410781     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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