Publication Details |
| Category | Text Publication |
| Reference Category | Journals |
| DOI | 10.1016/0169-5347(96)20091-6 |
| Title (Primary) | Individual-based modelling in ecology: what makes the difference? |
| Author | Uchmański, J.; Grimm, V. |
| Source Titel | Trends in Ecology & Evolution |
| Year | 1996 |
| Department | OESA |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Page From | 437 |
| Page To | 441 |
| Language | 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. |
| Persistent UFZ Identifier | https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=20939&ufzPublicationIdentifier=21550 |
| 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 |
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