Ecological Modelling

Papers
(The median citation count of Ecological Modelling is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
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A protocol for implementing parameter sensitivity analyses in complex ecosystem models85
Multimedia fates and ecological risk control strategies of phthalic acid esters in a lake recharged by reclaimed water using the QWASI fugacity model76
Modified framework to reflect contribution of soil storage in emergy synthesis under different agricultural practices at farm level71
The critical challenge of nonstationarity in ecological modelling66
The return of the Caracal Caracal caracal: 56 Years of Population Changes in Israel61
Optimising profits from timber harvest and the biodiversity conservation value in a central European beech forest using a novel bioeconomic forestry model60
Real-time assessment of live forest fuel moisture content and flammability by using space-time universal kriging49
A generational randomized growth model for fall-spawning Atlantic herring: Insights from real-world data46
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Mathematical modeling in behavior responses: The tendency-prediction based on a persistence model on real-time data42
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Modelling assessment of how small-scale vertical movements of infectious sea lice larvae can affect their large-scale distribution in fjordic systems39
Individual-based modelling of adaptive physiological traits of cyanobacteria: Responses to light history39
Analysis of carbon emission drivers and peak carbon forecasts for island economies38
Calibration and validation of the AquaCrop model for production arrangements of forage cactus and grass in a semi-arid environment37
A new model formulation for host depletion in parasitoids37
Resource objective wildfire leveraged to restore old growth forest structure while stabilizing carbon stocks in the southwestern United States36
Impact of population growth and housing development on the riverine environment: Identifying environmental threat and solution in the Wanggu River, Indonesia35
Machine-learning modeling on tree mortality and growth reduction of temperate forests with climatic and ecophysiological parameters35
Simulation of forest carbon fluxes by integrating remote sensing data into biome-BGC model34
Modeling collective motion for fish schooling via multi-agent reinforcement learning33
Snow runoff modelling in the upper Indus River Basin and its implication to energy water food nexus33
Modelling the effects of copepod diel vertical migration and community structure on ocean carbon flux using an agent-based model32
Estimating stomatal conductance under drought: Parameterizing a phenomenological model and evaluating roles of the energy balance equation32
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When can few-species models describe dynamics within a complex community?30
Mechanistic simulations of kelp populations in a dynamic landscape of light, temperature, and winter storms30
Modelling interactive effects of biological and environmental factors on fine-scale coral settlement patterns30
Corrigendum to ‘The return of the Caracal (Caracal caracal): 56-years of population changes in Israel’ [Ecological Modelling 508 (2025):111197]30
Land suitability assessment and self-sufficiency evaluation for fodder crop production in a hyper arid environment coupling GIS-based multi-criteria decision making and optimization29
Unfolding carbon inequality across Belt and Road Initiative countries and regions under a global trade network29
Indirect effects of pine marten recovery result in benefits to native prey through suppression of an invasive species and a shared pathogen28
Seasonal pattern of dengue infection in Singapore: A mechanism-based modeling and prediction28
How sustainable development goals have transformed our world? Evolution of the ecological networks of the Italian economy28
Integrating functional connectivity and habitat stability into fish habitat assessment and optimizing ecological operation27
Coastal generalized ecosystem model (CGEM) 1.0: Flexible model formulations for simulating complex biogeochemical processes in aquatic ecosystems27
Corrigendum to “How can oak regeneration in the Leipzig Floodplain Forest be effectively supported by femel plantations? Application of a demographic forest model” [Ecological Modelling 499 (2025) 11026
Balancing economics and ecology in ocean ecosystems: A bioeconomic predator-prey model25
Radial growth models for Pedunculate Oak in the Baltics, Latvia25
Modelling the dynamics of soil moisture and soil water salinity in tropical saltmarshes25
Functional responses in habitat selection as a management tool to evaluate agri-environment schemes for farmland birds25
Addition of finer scale data and uncertainty analysis increases precision of geospatial suitability model for non-native plants in the US24
Analysis of simulated trap counts arising from correlated and biased random walks24
Modelling the effect of genotype (PRNP) linked to susceptibility, infection duration and prion shedding on chronic wasting disease dynamics of cervids24
Socio-econ-ecosystem multipurpose simulator (SEEMS): An easy-to-apply agent-based model for simulating small-scale coupled human and nature systems in biological conservation hotspots23
Intelligent classification model of land resource use using deep learning in remote sensing images23
Separating acoustic signal into underlying behaviors with self-exciting point process models23
Less is more: Less herbicide does more when biological control is present in Pontederia crassipes22
Uncertainties in future ecosystem services under land and climate scenarios: The case of erosion in the Alps22
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Individual-based modeling of shelled pteropods22
Development and application of a bioenergetics growth model for multiple early life stages of an ecologically important marine fish21
A high resolution hydrodynamic-biogeochemical-oyster-filtration model predicts that the presence of oysters (Crassostrea virginica) can improve, or reduce, water quality depending upon oyster abundanc21
One century of carbon dynamics in the eastern Canadian boreal forest under various management strategies and climate change projections21
Incorporating biodiversity impacts in land use decisions21
Revisiting the dynamic simulation model of land-use changes in the Sudano-sahelian countries of Africa (SALU): An open-access application to Senegal21
Long-term assessment of land-use and climate change on water scarcity in an arid basin in Iran21
Comparison of several models for estimating gross primary production of drip-irrigated maize in arid regions21
Estimating the fundamental niche: Accounting for the uneven availability of existing climates in the calibration area20
Building ecosystem services-based ecological networks in energy and chemical industry areas20
Revolutionising sustainability using a new triplet: A system dynamic model20
A comparison of machine learning and statistical species distribution models: Quantifying overfitting supports model interpretation20
A method for estimating biomass of age-0 fish in case of protracted spawning leading to multiple larval cohorts in the population20
Reconsidering the Price equation: Benchmarking the analytical power of additive partitioning in ecology20
Age structured partial differential equations model for Culex mosquito abundance20
A Monte-Carlo based 3-D ballistics model for guiding bat carcass surveys using environmental and turbine operational data19
Is toxicity a curse or blessing, or both?—Searching answer from a disease-induced consumer-resource system19
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Assessing between-individual variability in bioenergetics modelling: Opportunities, challenges, and potential applications19
Modeling of the spread of non-adaptive traits in a natural population due to self-compatibility19
Dynamic energy budget modelling of anuran metamorphosis19
Combating over-commercialization in ecotourism through collaborative governance: A game-theoretic modeling analysis19
Corrigendum to “Unified process model-based assessment of environmental interactions and ecosystem services of a managed fishpond-reed agroecosystem” [Ecological Modelling 506 (2025) 111151]19
Modeling and analysis of maize agroecosystem dynamics with stresses18
Uncertainty in forecasting land cover land use at a watershed scale: Towards enhanced sustainable land management18
Thermodynamic exploration of the adaptive cycle18
Ecological effect of seasonally changing temperature on the life cycle of Aurelia aurita18
An individual-based model for exploration of population and stock dynamics in marine fishes18
Simulation and analysis of dengue transmission dynamics using advanced fuzzy arithmetic18
A dynamic outbreak distribution model (DODM) for an irruptive folivore: The western spruce budworm18
Spatial mechanistic modelling to simulate movements and contacts between wildlife and livestock in Southern Africa18
Informing Surveillance through the Characterization of Outbreak Potential of Chronic Wasting Disease in White-Tailed Deer17
Effects of temperature and salinity on growth of Aurelia aurita17
Integrating ecosystem services modeling and efficiencies in decision-support models conceptualization for watershed management17
Bush encroachment with climate change in protected and communal areas: A species distribution modelling approach17
Parameter sensitivity and transferability for simulating ET and GPP of Dryland ecosystems across a climate gradient17
Energy-systems accounting in industrial-natural systems; An energy analysis of a managed forest ecosystem including food web biomass dynamics17
Performance comparison of sewage treatment plants before and after their upgradation using emergy evaluation combined with economic analysis: A case from Southwest China17
On the evolution of dispersal strategies under the costs of acquisition of private and social information16
Understanding the drivers of fish variability in an end-to-end model of the Northern Humboldt Current System16
Combining CENTURY model and vulnerability assessment index to estimate aboveground biomass and ecological vulnerability of grassland: An analysis in Northwest Sichuan Plateau16
Spatial-temporal evolution of carbon storage and its driving factors in the Shanxi section of the Yellow River Basin, China16
Metacommunity stability and persistence for predation turnoff in selective patches16
Framing settlement systems as spatial adaptive systems16
Comparing distribution of harbour porpoise using generalized additive models and hierarchical Bayesian models with integrated nested laplace approximation15
The landscape altered the interaction between vegetation and climate in the desert oasis of Hotan River Basin, Xinjiang, China15
Moths exhibit strong memory among cooperative species of other taxonomic groups: An empirical study15
Comparing commonly used aquatic habitat modeling methods for native fish15
Demystifying Monte Carlo methods in R: A guide from Metropolis–Hastings to Hamiltonian Monte Carlo with biological growth equation examples15
Modeling drought mortality and resilience of savannas and forests in tropical Asia15
Field-scale simulation of runoff and water quality in a paddy field: A study of novel RWQSPad model15
Emergy ecological footprint analysis of Yaghooti grape production in the Sistan region of Iran15
Species profiles support recommendations for quality filtering of opportunistic citizen science data15
Predicting the potential impact of forest fires on runoff and sediment loads using a distributed hydrological modeling approach15
Analyzing sustainable development strategies through multi-method integration in the Green Economy Model15
Modeling soil carbon accumulation in irrigated agricultural systems14
Current bioclimatic suitability and climate change impacts on the risk of cacao moniliasis invasion in Pará14
Improving species distribution models for climate change studies: ecological plausibility and performance metrics14
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A hierarchical Bayesian approach for incorporating expert opinions into parametric survival models: A case study of female Ixodes ricinus ticks exposed to various temperature and relative humidity con14
Correlated Random Walk of tuna in arrays of Fish Aggregating Devices: A field-based model from passive acoustic tagging14
Understanding plankton ecosystem dynamics under realistic micro-scale variability requires modeling at least three trophic levels14
Using Hidden Markov Models to develop ecosystem indicators from non-stationary time series14
Identifying optimal cloud cover for enhanced forest carbon uptake: Periodic-case NEE-overshoot modelling13
Canary palms in rural areas as invasion bridges: Exploring simulated red palm weevil spread across date palm plantations13
Modelling system dynamics as a socio-ecological perspective to support human-beaver interactions13
Dynamic evolution and simulation of habitat quality in arid regions: A case study of the Hexi region, China13
Multiscale habitat suitability modeling for a threatened raptor offers insight into ecological model transferability13
New applications of an old individual-based model for biological dynamics13
When does artificial intelligence replace process-based models in ecological modelling?13
The impact of dynamic wind flow behavior on forest fire spread using cellular automata: Application to the watershed BOUKHALEF (Morocco)13
DiaThor: R package for computing diatom metrics and biotic indices13
Simulating critical nutrient loadings of regime shift in the shallow plateau Lake Dianchi13
Modeling the life cycle of four types of phytoplankton and their bloom mechanisms in a benthic-pelagic coupled ecosystem13
Simulation of N2O emissions from greenhouse vegetable production under different management systems in North China13
Multi-scenario spatial optimization for future development in arid and semi-arid regions based on early warning of ecological risk13
A state-space model for estimating pinniped pup production from serial counts at breeding colonies12
Attractor of a neutral individual-based forest model captures spatiotemporal structure characteristics of a mature tropical forest12
Real world data for real world problems: Importance of appropriate spatial resolution modelling to inform decision makers in marine management12
The application of a plant community model to evaluate adaptation strategies for alleviating climate change impacts on grassland productivity, biodiversity and forage quality12
Self-healing time of population under dynamic disturbance12
Controls and characteristics of biomass quantization in size-structured planktonic ecosystem models12
Quantitative evaluation of the effects of bycatch on native species using mathematical models12
Unifying occupancy-detection and local frequency scaling (Frescalo) models12
Dryland vegetation pattern dynamics driven by inertial effects and secondary seed dispersal12
Sector aggregation effect on embodied carbon emission based on city-centric global multi-region input-output (CCG-MRIO) model12
Does climate change stimulate citizens' responses to conserving urban forest? Insights from stimulus-organism-response theory12
Impact of different invasion methods of invasive species on omnivorous food webs12
Coefficients of association between nominal and fully ranked ordinal variables with applications to ecological network analysis12
Predicting shifts in demography of Orbicella franksi following simulated disturbance and restoration12
Howard T. Odum’s contributions to evolutionary theory12
A new interval meta-goal programming for sustainable planning of agricultural water-land use nexus12
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A spatially explicit model of tree leaf litter accumulation in fire maintained longleaf pine forests of the southeastern US12
A quantitative application of diffusion of innovations for modeling the spread of conservation behaviors12
Preparing for and managing crown-of-thorns starfish outbreaks on reefs under threat from interacting anthropogenic stressors12
Corrigendum to ‘Modeling mixoplankton along the biogeochemical gradient of the Southern North Sea’ Ecological Modelling 458 (2021) 0304-3800/10969012
A data-driven high spatial resolution model of biomass accumulation and crop yield: Application to a fragmented desert-oasis agroecosystem12
Sampling effort required for fitting spatially explicit models of species distribution dynamics11
Corrigendum to "Comparing the performance of global, geographically weighted and ecologically weighted species distribution models for Scottish wildcats using GLM and Random Forest predictive modeling11
Impacts of land-use intensity on ecosystems stability11
An exploration of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) factors simulated by SCOPE for capturing GPP across vegetation types11
Modeling terrestrial net ecosystem exchange using machine learning techniques based on flux tower measurements11
Transient perturbations reveal distinct strategies for reserve benefits in life history-dependent ecosystems11
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Using interaction profile to measure species uniqueness in food webs11
Production potential of seaweed and shellfish integrated aquaculture in Narragansett Bay (Rhode Island, U.S.) using an ecosystem model11
An analytical solution for optimising multi-species detection surveys11
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The emergence of imperfect philopatry and fidelity in spatially and temporally heterogeneous environments11
Systems modeling for agroecology and land restoration11
How much is enough? Optimizing beehive stocking densities to maximize the production of a pollinator-dependent crop11
Climatic sensitivity of seasonal ice-cover, water temperature and biogeochemical cycling in Lake 239 of the Experimental Lakes Area (ELA), Ontario, Canada11
A spatiotemporal SEIR model for predicting wheat stripe and leaf rusts epidemics11
System evolution model of human disturbances in panda habitats11
Fish survival subject to algal bloom: Resource-based growth models with algal digestion delay and detritus-nutrient recycling delay11
Potential thermal safety margin for plant photosynthesis derived from local temperature variability11
Ecological modeling and parameter estimation for predator–prey dynamics in a closed habitat: A case study of Isle Royale11
Development of models for sustainable green mussel cultivation under climate change events11
A GIS-based approach for managing catch-and-release fisheries11
Modeling Tree Recovery in Wind-Disturbed Forests with Dense Understory Species under Climate Change11
The integration of hierarchical levels of scale in tree species distribution models of silver fir (Abies alba Mill.) and European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) in mountain forests11
Fungal pathogen transmission dynamics in North American salamanders: Mathematical insights for disease management11
Modeling food dependent symbiosis in Exaiptasia pallida11
Multi-sectoral analysis of smarter urban nitrogen metabolism: A case study of Suzhou, China10
Using the roughness height and manning number in hydrodynamic model to estimate the impact of intensive oyster aquaculture by floating & fixed rafts on water exchange with an application in Qinzho10
Which rice farming system is more environmentally friendly in Khuzestan province, Iran? A study based on emergy analysis10
Modelling farmland dynamics in response to farmer decisions using an advanced irrigation-related agent-based model10
Landscape ecology and urban spatial configuration: Exploring a methodological relationship. Application in Pelotas, Brazil10
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Methods for comparing theoretical models parameterized with field data using biological criteria and Sobol analysis10
Nonlinear impacts of climate change on dengue transmission in mainland China: Underlying mechanisms and future projection10
Modeling urban growth effects on carrying capacity in arid and semi-arid regions using system dynamics10
Modelling the spatial shifts of functional groups in the Barents Sea using a climate-driven spatial food web model10
Productivity-environment models for Scots pine plantations in Bulgaria: an interaction of anthropogenic origin peculiarities and climate change10
Spatiotemporal evolution of county level ecological security based on an emergy ecological footprint model: The case of Dingxi, China10
Ecological flow considering hydrological season and habitat suitability for a variety of fish10
Contrasting occupancy models with presence-only models: Does accounting for detection lead to better predictions?10
Temporal transferability of species abundance models to study the changes of breeding bird species based on land cover changes10
Constructing time-series submerged aquatic vegetation by integrating process-based modeling and satellite images10
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Bayesian multi-level calibration of a process-based maize phenology model10
Multi-objective optimization of forest ecosystem services under uncertainty10
Improving forest gross primary productivity estimation through climate and trait integration10
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Using the ODD protocol and NetLogo to replicate agent-based models10
Spatial structure of natural boxwood and the invasive box tree moth can promote coexistence10
H.T. Odum’s contributions to springs ecology and treatment wetlands10
Using system equalization principle to study the effects of multiple factors to the development of bee colony10
Effect of study area extent on the potential distribution of Species: A case study with models for Raoiella indica Hirst (Acari: Tenuipalpidae)10
Analysis of the sustainability index for ecologically low-input integrated farming: A comprehensive assessment of environmental, economic, and social impact10
Climate covariate selection influences MaxEnt model predictions and predictive accuracy under current and future climates10
Using a time-dynamic food web model to compare predation and fishing mortality in Pleuroncodes monodon (Galatheidae: Crustaceae) and other benthic and demersal resource species off central Chile10
Analysis of a mathematical model for golden mussels infestation10
Emergy theory to quantify the sustainability of large cascade hydropower projects in the upper Yangtze9
Crossing paths between empirical ecologists and meta-ecology modellers to advance marine functional connectivity estimation and prediction9
What grows, adapts and lives in the digital sphere? Systematic literature review on the dynamic modelling of flora and fauna in digital twins9
Are maximum yields sustainable? Effect of intra-annual time-scales on MSY, stability and resilience9
Assessing bivalve growth using bio-energetic models9
LoggingLab: An R package to simulate reduced-impact selective logging in tropical forests using forest inventory data9
Mathematical validation of cleaning symbiosis between Macrobrachium lamarrei and Labeo rohita as an effective bio-control method against Argulus bengalensis9
Toward a better understanding of forest spatial patterns:A generalisation of the uniform angle index9
Simulating implications of fish behavioral response for managing hypoxia in estuaries with spatial dissolved oxygen variability9
Investigating the need to replace the conventional method of sugar beet production in lorestan province, iran based on the arguments obtained from emergy calculations9
Resilience, indirect effects and cycling in ecological networks9
Development of interval transient pollution distribution model and its application in the Fenghuangshan drinking water source9
A spatially-explicit stochastic model for the Gulf Coast Tick9
On the use of machine learning methods to improve the estimation of gross primary productivity of maize field with drip irrigation9
Balancing act: A participatory system dynamics approach for Mar Menor’s sustainable future9
Model-based experiments as epistemic evidence in paleoecology9
Computational assessment of Amazon forest plots regrowth capacity under strong spatial variability for simulating logging scenarios9
Integrating equity and justice in marine ecosystem models: An incremental but meaningful approach9
Algorithms going wild – A review of machine learning techniques for terrestrial ecology9
Using GIS-based multicriteria decision analysis to prioritize invasive plant treatment: A creative solution for a pernicious problem9
Recommendations for estimating and detecting time-varying spawner-recruit dynamics in fish populations9
Diffusivity and bias movement velocity of Cryptolestes ferrugineus (Coleoptera: Laemophloeidae) adults under different temperature and moisture differences9
Howard T. Odum’s contribution to Marxian ecological thought9
Evolution of the concept of ecological integrity and its study through networks9
Interpreting stoichiometric homeostasis and flexibility of soil microbial biomass carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus9
The influence of phytoplankton size fractions on the carbon export ratio in the surface ocean9
Information sharing promotes bacterial diversity in oligotrophic environment with low-dose X-ray radiation based on modeling and simulation of agent-based model9
Analytical model for pullout behavior of root system9
Evaluating the skill of correlative species distribution models trained with mechanistic model output9
Overcoming conceptual hurdles to accurately represent trees as cohorts in forest landscape models8
Predicting restoration and aquaculture potential of eastern oysters through an eco-physiological mechanistic model8
Investigating the effect of pesticides on Daphnia population dynamics by inferring structure and parameters of a stochastic model8
Stability analysis and Hopf bifurcation of a brown planthopper–rice model under the effect of monsoon8
A long-term multiparametric analysis of benthic macroinvertebrate responses to anthropogenic stressors, including a novel multimetric index for evaluating the ecological conditions of mountain rivers 8
Modeling the carbon costs of plant phosphorus acquisition in Amazonian forests8
A general DDE framework to describe insect populations: Why delays are so important?8
Combined influences of environmental enrichment and harvesting mediate rich dynamics in an intraguild predation fishery system8
Carbon stock model of Pinus massoniana in the subtropical zone of China: An integrated method of biomass and carbon content coefficient8
Dynamic distribution modelling using a native invasive species, the mountain pine beetle8
Fine-scale surface complexity promotes temperature extremes but reduces the spatial extent of refugia on coastal rocks8
Snow leopard connectivity through trans-boundary areas surrounding the Dzungarian Basin in Kazakhstan8
Integrated SSP-RCP Scenarios for Modeling the Impacts of Climate Change and Land Use on Ecosystem Services in East Africa8
The metabolic interpretation of the von Bertalanffy growth rate8
The role of squid for food web structure and community-level metabolism8
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