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   Individual-based Modeling and Ecology

Individual-based Modeling and Ecology

   [8]Volker Grimm

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   Individual-based models are an exciting and widely used new tool for ecology.
   These computational models allow scientists to explore the mechanisms through
   which population and ecosystem ecology arises from how individuals interact with
   each other and their environment. This book provides the first in-depth treatment
   of individual-based modeling and its use to develop theoretical understanding of
   how ecological systems work, an approach the authors call "individual-based
   ecology.?
   Grimm and Railsback start with a general primer on modeling: how to design models
   that are as simple as possible while still allowing specific problems to be
   solved, and how to move efficiently through a cycle of pattern-oriented model
   design, implementation, and analysis. Next, they address the problems of theory
   and conceptual framework for individual-based ecology: What is "theory"? That is,
   how do we develop reusable models of how system dynamics arise from
   characteristics of individuals? What conceptual framework do we use when the
   classical differential equation framework no longer applies? An extensive review
   illustrates the ecological problems that have been addressed with
   individual-based models. The authors then identify how the mechanics of building
   and using individual-based models differ from those of traditional science, and
   provide guidance on formulating, programming, and analyzing models. This book
   will be helpful to ecologists interested in modeling, and to other scientists
   interested in agent-based modeling.
   Volker Grimm is a Senior Researcher at the UFZ Centre for Environmental Research
   Leipzig-Halle and Lecturer at the University of Potsdam. Steven F. Railsback is a
   consulting scientist and Adjunct Professor of Mathematics at Humboldt State
   University.

   "The authors establish an effective and coherent framework for using
   individual-based modelling".--Nikita Y. Ratanov, Mathematical Reviews

   "An excellent book, which aims to invigorate individual-based modeling . . . by
   providing a clear theoretical framework for the subject--which they term
   individual-based ecology (IBE)--and a step-by-step guide to creating
   individual-based models (IBMs) within this framework. . . . I think this is a
   very timely book, and I recommend it to anyone new or old to the
   subject".--Richard Stillman, Quarterly Review of Biology

   "The book very successfully link[s] various 'universes' ranging from fundamental
   concepts in ecology and complex systems research to hands-on technical and
   recipe-like suggestions on how to build a model, illustrated with numerous,
   well-chosen examples".--Janine Bolliger, Landscape Ecology

   "For anyone who wants to know more about and possibly incorporate IBMs in his own
   research, this book provides plenty of advice and guidance on how to formulate,
   analyze, and use such models. If IBMs do ultimately reach the potential
   envisioned by the authors, their seminal book will have done much to contribute
   to that success".--Jim M. Cushing, Zentralblatt MATH

   "This book establishes an effective and coherent conceptual and technical
   framework for individual-based modeling with the objective to develop and
   illustrate an approach for addressing how individual behaviors and system
   dynamics emerge from lower-level traits".--Janine Bolliger, Landscape Ecology

   "Given the solid conceptual foundation of the book and the wide range of IBM
   applications in fish ecology, I think that many fish biologists will find this
   book very useful and I recommend it warmly".--Geir Huse, Fish and Fisheries

   "This seminal book truly deserves to be called the founding text for the growing
   field of individual-based modeling and the broader program of individual-based
   ecology. Core procedures and standards for formulating, parameterizing, testing,
   and communicating such models have long been lacking. Even the basic definitions
   have been missing. In one stroke, Grimm and Railsback provide all of those
   things. Thus, individual-based modeling now has a foundation no less firm than
   the foundation of classical mathematical ecology".--Don DeAngelis, Biological
   Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey, and University of Miami; author of
   Dynamics of Nutrient Cycling and Food Webs

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