Emergence of cooperative behaviours in the management of mobile ecological resources

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 45, Issue , 2013, Pages 52-63

  Touza, Julia ^a   Drechsler, Martin ^a   Smart, James C R ^b   Termansen, Mette ^c  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Deer management; Evolutionary game theory; Spatially explicit model

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY MANAGEMENTS; COOPERATION; DEER MANAGEMENT; EVOLUTIONARY GAME THEORY; FILAMENT-LIKE STRUCTURES; SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT MODELS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL DYNAMICS;

BIODIVERSITY; DYNAMICS; ECOLOGY; GAME THEORY; MANAGEMENT; SPACE APPLICATIONS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BIODIVERSITY; DEER; EMERGENCE; GAME THEORY; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; LINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DENSITY; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

CERVIDAE; CERVUS ELAPHUS;

EID: 84878244602     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2012.03.015     Document Type: Article

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