Insights for managers from modeling species interactions across multiple scales in an idealized landscape

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 54, Issue , 2014, Pages 53-59

  Schoon, Michael ^a   Baggio, Jacopo A ^a   Salau, Kehinde R ^b   Janssen, Marco ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive management; Agent based modeling; Biodiversity; Conservation; Management; Population dynamics

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; AGENT-BASED MODEL; DENSITY-DEPENDENT; HABITAT PATCHES; MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES; METAPOPULATIONS; PREDATOR-PREY DYNAMICS; PROTECTED AREAS;

BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONSERVATION; ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; MANAGERS; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

MANAGEMENT;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; BIODIVERSITY; CARRYING CAPACITY; COEXISTENCE; CONNECTIVITY; CONSERVATION; DECISION MAKING; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; LAND TENURE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PROTECTED AREA; VEGETATION COVER;

EID: 84892633669     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2013.12.010     Document Type: Article

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