Two modelling approaches to determine the effect of sheep grazing on the sustainability of long lived native trees species in arid Australia

18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM 2009 - International Congress on Modelling and Simulation: Interfacing Modelling and Simulation with Mathematical and Computational Sciences, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 547-553

  McArthur, L C ^a   Gaillard, M ^b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Herbivore grazing; Matrix population models; Myoporum playtycarpum; System dynamics

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEMS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RAIN; REFORESTATION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; SYSTEM THEORY; VEGETATION;

ALTERNATIVE MANAGEMENT; ANIMAL PRODUCTION; LONG-TERM DEVELOPMENT; MATRIX POPULATION MODEL; RESEARCH QUESTIONS; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; SYSTEM DYNAMICS APPROACH; SYSTEM DYNAMICS MODEL;

LAND USE;

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