Modelling ecological systems in a changing world
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Modelling ecological systems in a changing world.
The world is changing at an unprecedented rate. In such a situation, we need to understand the nature of the change and to make predictions about the way in which it might affect systems of interest; often we may also wish to understand what might be done to mitigate the predicted effects. In ecology, we usually make such predictions (or forecasts) by making use of mathematical models that desc...
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عنوان ژورنال: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0962-8436,1471-2970
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0172