WIT Press

Towards A Formalization Of Ecosystems And Ecological Models

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

22

Pages

11

Published

1997

Size

877 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/ECOSUD970561

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

Villacampa, Y., Uso, J.L. & Lloret, M.

Abstract

In this paper, the authors have established an axiomatization of all the basic concepts of the general ecosystem theory. To start with, they have performed a scheme of the same concept of the ecosystem that was studied; being formalized by all those properties that have been considered essential, in the authors opinion, for the ecosystems. The construction of models, practical aspects of the theory, has a principal purpose the determination of relations in formal language, that is, in mathematical language. In this study the authors have stated a formalization of the ecological model theory. Moreover, in the field of the construction of ecological models, experiences and new data lead the mod

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