Extending the use of ecological models without sacrificing details: a generic and parsimonious meta-modelling approach

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 934-943

  Marie, Guillaume ^a   Simioni, Guillaume ^a  

^a French National Institute for Agriculture   (France)

Author keywords

modelling; spatial or time series; statistics; upscaling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84969442265     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12250     Document Type: Article

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