Ecologist-Developed Spatially-Explicit Dynamic Landscape Models
Published on 7. May 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
XX, 260 pages
978-1-4899-8779-2 (ISBN)
Description
This book is written for ecologists interested in capturing their understandings of how natural systems work in software - to help inform their work and communicate the consequences of proposed management plans. Historically, ecologists had to rely on the skills of trained computer programmers to modeling natural systems, but now a new generation of software is allowing ecologists to directly capture their understandings of systems in software. This book is a compilation of spatially explicit simulation models developed by ecologists and planners without any formal computer programming skills. Readers will be inspired to believe that they too can create similar models of the systems with which they are familiar.
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Series
Edition
2012 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
XX, 260 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
429 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4899-8779-2 (9781489987792)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4614-1257-1
Schweitzer Classification
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James D. Westervelt | Gordon L. Cohen
Ecologist-Developed Spatially-Explicit Dynamic Landscape Models
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04/2012
Springer
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Ecologist-Developed Spatially-Explicit Dynamic Landscape Models
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Content
Preface.- Foreword.- Never Fear--You Already Model!.- A Collaborative Process for Multidisciplinary Group Modeling Projects.- An Introduction to the NetLogo Modeling Environment.- A Simulation Model of Fire Ant Competition with Cave Crickets at Fort Hood, Texas.- Spatially Explicit Agent-Based Model of Striped Newt Metapopulation Dynamics Under Precipitation and Forest Cover Scenarios.- Forecasting Gopher Tortoise Distribution and Long-Term Viability at Fort Benning, Georgia.- Using Demographic Sensitivity Testing to Guide Management for Gopher Tortoises on Fort Stewart, Georgia.- A Model for Evaluating Hunting and Contraception as Feral Hog Population Control Methods.- Spatially Explicit Modeling of Productivity in Pool 5 of the Mississippi River.- Simulating Gopher Tortoise Populations in Fragmented Landscapes: An Application of the FRAGGLE Model.- An Individual-Based Model for Metapopulations on Patchy Landscapes - Genetics and Demography (IMPL-GD).- An Implementation of the Pathway Analysis Through Habitat (PATH) Algorithm Using NetLogo.- A Technique for Rapidly Forecasting Regional Urban Growth.- Modeling Intimate Partner Violence and Support Systems.- Index.