Predicting the seed shadows of a Neotropical tree species dispersed by primates using an agent-based model with internal decision making for movements

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 278, Issue , 2014, Pages 74-84

  Bialozyt, Ronald ^a   Flinkerbusch, Sebastian ^a   Niggemann, Marc ^a   Heymann, Eckhard W ^b  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Movement incentives; Movement patterns; Seed dispersal; Seed shadow; SEIB; Tamarins

Indexed keywords

MOVEMENT INCENTIVES; MOVEMENT PATTERN; SEED DISPERSAL; SEIB; TAMARINS;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORESTRY; MAMMALS; ORCHARDS;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; NEOTROPICAL REGION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; PRIMATE; RANGE SIZE; SEED DISPERSAL;

COSTA RICA; LA SELVA BIOLOGICAL STATION; LIMON;

EID: 84896832884     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2014.02.004     Document Type: Article

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