The role of spatial refuges in coupled map lattice model for host-parasitoid systems

Diomar Cristina Mistro1, Luiz Alberto Díaz Rodrigues, Maria Cristina Varriale

  • 1Departamento de Matemática, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Campus Camobi, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil. dcmistro@gmail.com

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