Replicating and breaking models: Good for you and good for ecology

Oikos

Volumn 124, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 691-696

  Thiele, Jan C ^a   Grimm, Volker ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DESIGN METHOD; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; MODEL TEST;

EID: 84930413710     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/oik.02170     Document Type: Article

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