Sensitivity analysis of continuous-time models for ecological and evolutionary theories

Theoretical Ecology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 481-490

  Richard, Romain ^a,c   Casas, Jérôme ^b   McCauley, Edward ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UMR 7261 CNRS Université François Rabelais   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

Author keywords

Discrete events; Ecological models; Hybrid models; Individual energetics; Perturbation analysis

Indexed keywords

BIOENERGETICS; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84953839574     PISSN: 18741738     EISSN: 18741746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12080-015-0265-9     Document Type: Article

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