Ideal Free Distributions of Mobile Pastoralists in Multiple Seasonal Grazing Areas

Rangeland Ecology and Management

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 641-649

  Moritz, Mark ^a   Hamilton, Ian M ^a   Scholte, Paul ^b   Chen, Yu Jen ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Financial Systems Development Section   (Germany)

Author keywords

behavioral ecology; common pool resources; complex adaptive system; Ideal Free Distribution; pastoral systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926462745     PISSN: 15507424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2111/REM-D-14-00051.1     Document Type: Article

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