Mathematical Models for the Assessment of an Environmental System in Landscape Ecology

Vanessa Assumma; Elena De Angelis

doi:10.2478/caim-2024-0003

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Mathematical Models for the Assessment of an Environmental System in Landscape Ecology

Communications in Applied and Industrial Mathematics

Volume 15 (2024): Issue 1 (January 2024)

By: Vanessa Assumma and Elena De Angelis

Open Access

|Jul 2024

Abstract

In the framework of the theory of Landscape Ecology, a review of Lotka-Volterrra type models is proposed. Such models can be considered useful tools in order to represent and evaluate the dynamical behavior and the ecological stability of an environmental system which, as known, is subjected during time to several transformations. At this purpose, after such a review and presentation of different models, an application to an important wine region in France is performed using a model recently introduced in literature.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/caim-2024-0003 | Journal eISSN: 2038-0909

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Language: English

Page range: 50 - 65

Submitted on: Jan 24, 2024

Accepted on: Jun 27, 2024

Published on: Jul 17, 2024

Published by: Italian Society for Applied and Industrial Mathemathics

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

Keywords:

Lotka-Volterrra Models,

Nonlinear Ordinary Differential Equations,

Landscaspe Ecology

Related subjects:

Mathematics,

Numerical and computational mathematics,

Applied mathematics

© 2024 Vanessa Assumma, Elena De Angelis, published by Italian Society for Applied and Industrial Mathemathics
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Volume 15 (2024): Issue 1 (January 2024)