The Scaled Subspaces Method: A new trait-based approach to model communities of populations with largely inhomogeneous density

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 251, Issue , 2013, Pages 173-186

  Castellani, Marco ^a   Våge, Selina ^a   Strand, Espen ^a,b   Thingstad, T Frede ^a   Giske, Jarl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Individual based; Microbial food web; Modelling; Scaled subspaces; Trait based

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS DISTRIBUTION; COMMUNITY MODEL; DENSITY SPECTRUM; ECOLOGICAL SCENARIOS; FOOD WEBS; GENETIC MUTATIONS; INDIVIDUAL-BASED; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODELS; INHOMOGENEOUS DENSITY; LARGE POPULATION; MICROBIAL FOOD WEB; MIXOTROPHIC; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; POPULATION DENSITIES; SCALED SUBSPACES; SPATIAL SCALE; STATE-VARIABLE MODEL; TRAIT-BASED;

FORECASTING; MODELS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

ECOLOGY;

BIOMASS; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EXTINCTION; FOOD WEB; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODEL; INHOMOGENEITY; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; MIXOTROPHY; MUTATION; PARAMETERIZATION; PELAGIC ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION DENSITY; RARE SPECIES; REINTRODUCTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; VIABILITY;

EID: 84872729117     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2012.12.006     Document Type: Article

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