cm.dambacher {LoopAnalyst}R Documentation

A Ten-Variable Trophic Model Of Danish Shallow Lakes

Description

This dataset represents the causal relationships amongst the ten variables defined by iDambacher's 2002 in figure 6, page 1381.

Usage

data(cm.dambacher)

Format

A 10 by 10 (-1, 0, 1) matrix with each element having at least one parent and at least one child. The matrix is interpreted as the jth variable has the direct causal effect a[i,j] on variable i.

References

Puccia, C. J. and Levins, R. (1986) Qualitative Modeling of Complex Systems: An Introduction to Loop Analysis and Time Averaging. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Dambacher, J. M., Li, H. M., and Rossignol, P. A. (2002) Relevance of community structure in assessing indeterminacy of ecological predictions. Ecology, 83(5),1372-1385


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