Other modeling approaches
Other modeling approaches
This chapter examines other modeling approaches developed by ecologists to test the multiple stable states. Most of these approaches tend to fall into one of the two categories: the conceptual approach and the functional approach. Conceptual approach relies on verbal reasoning and visual representations while functional approach involves specification of a functional relationship between state variables and parameters. This chapter explains the conceptual approach by citing the state-and-transition models and other conceptual approaches. It also describes the weakly dissipative systems and the Coupled systems to give further details about the functional approach.
Keywords: modeling approach, multiple stable states, conceptual approach, functional approach, state-and-transition models
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