Integrated Bayesian network framework for modeling complex ecological issues

Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 480-490

  Johnson, Sandra ^a   Mengersen, Kerrie ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptive management; Cheetah; Iterative BN development cycle; Lyngbya; Object oriented bayesian network

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CHEETAH; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; CYANOBACTERIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; EUTROPHICATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; NAMIBIA; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ACINONYX; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CYANOBACTERIA; ECOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESSES; EUTROPHICATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NAMIBIA; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

EID: 84868266689     PISSN: 15513793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ieam.274     Document Type: Article

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