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Ecological systems (ecosystems, for short) are complex systems of interacting species, plants and animals, where each of the species consists of individual organisms that interact with organisms of the same or other species in various ways: they compete for scare resources and they are involved...
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behave as if they maximize their net biomass subject to constraints which express the organisms' risk of being preyed upon … during predation. Like consumers, organisms face a 'budget constraint' requiring their expenditure on prey biomass not to … exceed their revenue from supplying own biomass. Short-run ecosystem equilibria are defined and derived. The net biomass …
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for land and prey biomass. We introduce a competitive allocation mechanism in both submodels such that economic prices and … divergence of prices for biomass and land in both subsystems. Finally, we determine values of all components of the ecosystem in …
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for land and prey biomass. We introduce a competitive allocation mechanism in both submodels such that economic prices and … divergence of prices for biomass and land in both subsystems. Finally, we determine values of all components of the ecosystem in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004995090
behave as if they maximize their net biomass subject to constraints which express the organisms' risk of being preyed upon … during predation. Like consumers, organisms face a 'budget constraint' requiring their expenditure on prey biomass not to … exceed their revenue from supplying own biomass. Short-run ecosystem equilibria are defined and derived. The net biomass …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005036016
behave as if they maximize their net biomass subject to constraints which express the organisms' risk of being preyed upon … during predation. Like consumers, organisms face a 'budget constraint' requiring their expenditure on prey biomass not to … exceed their revenue from supplying own biomass. Short-run ecosystem equilibria are defined and derived. The net biomass …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011525231