Ecologist-Developed Spatially-Explicit Dynamic Landscape Models

✍ Scribed by James D. Westervelt, Gordon L. Cohen (auth.), James D. Westervelt, Gordon L. Cohen (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 272
• Series: Modeling Dynamic Systems
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Never Fear: You Already Model!....Pages 1-6
A Collaborative Process for Multidisciplinary Group Modeling Projects....Pages 7-25
An Introduction to the NetLogo Modeling Environment....Pages 27-41
A Simulation Model of Fire Ant Competition with Cave Crickets at Fort Hood, Texas....Pages 43-62
Spatially Explicit Agent-Based Model of Striped Newt Metapopulation Dynamics Under Precipitation and Forest Cover Scenarios....Pages 63-83
Forecasting Gopher Tortoise ( Gopherus polyphemus ) Distribution and Long-Term Viability at Fort Benning, Georgia....Pages 85-107
Using Demographic Sensitivity Testing to Guide Management of Gopher Tortoises at Fort Stewart, Georgia: A Comparison of Individual-Based Modeling and Population Viability Analysis Approaches....Pages 109-131
A Model for Evaluating Hunting and Contraception as Feral Hog Population Control Methods....Pages 133-150
Spatially Explicit Modeling of Productivity in Pool 5 of the Mississippi River....Pages 151-170
Simulating Gopher Tortoise Populations in Fragmented Landscapes: An Application of the FRAGGLE Model....Pages 171-195
An Individual-Based Model for Metapopulations on Patchy Landscapes-Genetics and Demography (IMPL-GD)....Pages 197-209
An Implementation of the Pathway Analysis Through Habitat (PATH) Algorithm Using NetLogo....Pages 211-222
A Technique for Rapidly Forecasting Regional Urban Growth....Pages 223-234
Modeling Intimate Partner Violence and Support Systems....Pages 235-253
Back Matter....Pages 255-260

✦ Subjects

Environmental Monitoring/Analysis; Computer Appl. in Life Sciences