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DOI 10.1016/0169-5347(96)20091-6
Titel (primär) Individual-based modelling in ecology: what makes the difference?
Autor Uchmański, J.; Grimm, V.
Quelle Trends in Ecology & Evolution
Erscheinungsjahr 1996
Department OESA
Band/Volume 11
Heft 10
Seite von 437
Seite bis 441
Sprache englisch
Abstract Is individual-based modelling really a new approach in ecology? A large part of the uncertainty surrounding this question is a consequence of imprecisely delimited boundaries between classical and individual-based modelling. Genuine ‘individual-based’ models describe a population made up of individuals that may differ from one another; they also describe changes in numbers of individuals rather than in the population density, and take resource dynamics explicitly into account. Individual-based models that fulfil these criteria will not characterize ecological systems as ‘stable’ systems in their ideal form, with equilibrium states represented by points in the phase space.
Uchmański, J., Grimm, V. (1996):
Individual-based modelling in ecology: what makes the difference?
Trends Ecol. Evol. 11 (10), 437 - 441 10.1016/0169-5347(96)20091-6