An energy budget agent-based model of earthworm populations and its application to study the effects of pesticides

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 280, Issue , 2014, Pages 5-17

  Johnston, A S A ^a   Hodson, M E ^b   Thorbek, P ^c   Alvarez, T ^d   Sibly, R M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c JEALOTT S HILL INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d EcoRisk Solutions Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agent based model; Earthworm; Energy budget model; Mechanistic effect model; Pesticides; Toxic stress

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DIGITAL STORAGE; ECOLOGY; EXPERIMENTS; EXTRAPOLATION; MAINTENANCE; PESTICIDE EFFECTS; PESTICIDES; POPULATION STATISTICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL MOISTURE; TOXICITY;

AGENT-BASED MODEL; EARTHWORM; EARTHWORM EISENIA FETIDA; ENERGY BUDGETS; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK ASSESSMENT; MECHANISTIC EFFECTS; PHYSIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; PHYSIOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES;

PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; EARTHWORM; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENERGY BUDGET; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FOOD LIMITATION; GROWTH RATE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PESTICIDE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL FAUNA; SOIL TEMPERATURE; STARVATION;

EISENIA FETIDA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84897390049     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2013.09.012     Document Type: Article

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