Computational ecology as an emerging science

Interface Focus

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 241-254

  Petrovskii, Sergei ^a   Petrovskaya, Natalia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computational ecology; Conceptual modelling; Predictive modelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860463382     PISSN: 20428898     EISSN: 20428901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsfs.2011.0083     Document Type: Article

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