Ecological Modelling

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	307
The critical challenge of nonstationarity in ecological modelling	84
Analysis of carbon emission drivers and peak carbon forecasts for island economies	69
Estimating stomatal conductance under drought: Parameterizing a phenomenological model and evaluating roles of the energy balance equation	69
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Niche-based mechanisms mediating the impacts and mitigation of biological invasion	60
Wildfire hazard modelling in the Ahafo Region of Ghana using GIS–based Multi- criteria decision-making analysis	51
Resource objective wildfire leveraged to restore old growth forest structure while stabilizing carbon stocks in the southwestern United States	49
A generational randomized growth model for fall-spawning Atlantic herring: Insights from real-world data	48
Multimedia fates and ecological risk control strategies of phthalic acid esters in a lake recharged by reclaimed water using the QWASI fugacity model	46
Optimising profits from timber harvest and the biodiversity conservation value in a central European beech forest using a novel bioeconomic forestry model	46
Modelling assessment of how small-scale vertical movements of infectious sea lice larvae can affect their large-scale distribution in fjordic systems	46
Modeling collective motion for fish schooling via multi-agent reinforcement learning	45
Snow runoff modelling in the upper Indus River Basin and its implication to energy water food nexus	44
Impact of population growth and housing development on the riverine environment: Identifying environmental threat and solution in the Wanggu River, Indonesia	42
Multi-agent simulation of Sphenophorus levis infestation and natural biological control with Beauveria bassiana and Steinernema brazilense in sugarcane cultivation	41
Real-time assessment of live forest fuel moisture content and flammability by using space-time universal kriging	41
Modelling the effects of copepod diel vertical migration and community structure on ocean carbon flux using an agent-based model	41
A new model formulation for host depletion in parasitoids	41
The return of the Caracal Caracal caracal: 56 Years of Population Changes in Israel	40
Building hydrology-food web model to assess environmental flows for indigenous fish in the upper Yangtze mainstem	39
A protocol for implementing parameter sensitivity analyses in complex ecosystem models	37
Individual-based modelling of adaptive physiological traits of cyanobacteria: Responses to light history	36
Machine-learning modeling on tree mortality and growth reduction of temperate forests with climatic and ecophysiological parameters	35
Calibration and validation of the AquaCrop model for production arrangements of forage cactus and grass in a semi-arid environment	35

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Simulation of forest carbon fluxes by integrating remote sensing data into biome-BGC model	34
Modelling interactive effects of biological and environmental factors on fine-scale coral settlement patterns	33
Mechanistic simulations of kelp populations in a dynamic landscape of light, temperature, and winter storms	32
Analysis of simulated trap counts arising from correlated and biased random walks	31
Coastal generalized ecosystem model (CGEM) 1.0: Flexible model formulations for simulating complex biogeochemical processes in aquatic ecosystems	31
Unfolding carbon inequality across Belt and Road Initiative countries and regions under a global trade network	31
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 hotspots	30
Modelling the effect of genotype (PRNP) linked to susceptibility, infection duration and prion shedding on chronic wasting disease dynamics of cervids	30
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Intelligent classification model of land resource use using deep learning in remote sensing images	30
Less is more: Less herbicide does more when biological control is present in Pontederia crassipes	30
Beyond the Field: R and predictive ecology	30
Incorporating biodiversity impacts in land use decisions	30
Addition of finer scale data and uncertainty analysis increases precision of geospatial suitability model for non-native plants in the US	29
When can few-species models describe dynamics within a complex community?	29
Revisiting the dynamic simulation model of land-use changes in the Sudano-sahelian countries of Africa (SALU): An open-access application to Senegal	29
Coupling simulation of rice growth and paddy drainage under controlled irrigation and drainage with the ORYZA2000 and DRAINMOD models	29
Building ecosystem services-based ecological networks in energy and chemical industry areas	28
Assessing cattle grazing impact on biomass and soil carbon pools in an Australian semi-arid woodland	28
How sustainable development goals have transformed our world? Evolution of the ecological networks of the Italian economy	27
Age structured partial differential equations model for Culex mosquito abundance	27
Reconsidering the Price equation: Benchmarking the analytical power of additive partitioning in ecology	26
Corrigendum to ‘The return of the Caracal (Caracal caracal): 56-years of population changes in Israel’ [Ecological Modelling 508 (2025):111197]	25
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) 110	25
Development and application of a bioenergetics growth model for multiple early life stages of an ecologically important marine fish	24
Uncertainties in future ecosystem services under land and climate scenarios: The case of erosion in the Alps	24
A mathematical model for the drift and damage of drifting fish eggs incorporating multi-source damage factors	24
Balancing economics and ecology in ocean ecosystems: A bioeconomic predator-prey model	23
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 abundanc	23
Radial growth models for Pedunculate Oak in the Baltics, Latvia	23
Generalized EPICS (gEPICS): Handling species extinctions in predicting microbial community structures using effective pairwise interactions	23
Seasonal pattern of dengue infection in Singapore: A mechanism-based modeling and prediction	23
Modelling the dynamics of soil moisture and soil water salinity in tropical saltmarshes	22
Functional responses in habitat selection as a management tool to evaluate agri-environment schemes for farmland birds	22
Indirect effects of pine marten recovery result in benefits to native prey through suppression of an invasive species and a shared pathogen	22
Land suitability assessment and self-sufficiency evaluation for fodder crop production in a hyper arid environment coupling GIS-based multi-criteria decision making and optimization	22
One century of carbon dynamics in the eastern Canadian boreal forest under various management strategies and climate change projections	22
Exploring the spatial interaction relationship between new-type urbanization and ecological vulnerability	22
A comparison of machine learning and statistical species distribution models: Quantifying overfitting supports model interpretation	22
Integrating functional connectivity and habitat stability into fish habitat assessment and optimizing ecological operation	22
Demystifying Monte Carlo methods in R: A guide from Metropolis–Hastings to Hamiltonian Monte Carlo with biological growth equation examples	21
Modeling drought mortality and resilience of savannas and forests in tropical Asia	21
Dispersal as a stabilizing force against adaptation-induced oscillations under climate warming	20
Comparison of structurally diverse simulation models for prediction of epidemic outcomes caused by a long-distance dispersed pathogen	20
Framing settlement systems as spatial adaptive systems	20
Modeling of the spread of non-adaptive traits in a natural population due to self-compatibility	20
Simulation and analysis of dengue transmission dynamics using advanced fuzzy arithmetic	20
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A Monte-Carlo based 3-D ballistics model for guiding bat carcass surveys using environmental and turbine operational data	20

Modeling and analysis of maize agroecosystem dynamics with stresses	20
Editorial Board	19
Strategies for calculating confidence limits in forest inventories	19
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
Energy-systems accounting in industrial-natural systems; An energy analysis of a managed forest ecosystem including food web biomass dynamics	19
Simulating global forest NEP by integrating TL-LUE model with deep learning	19
Uncertainty in forecasting land cover land use at a watershed scale: Towards enhanced sustainable land management	19
Suitability analysis for urban oasis gardens: mapping potential sites in Biskra, Algeria	19
A dynamic outbreak distribution model (DODM) for an irruptive folivore: The western spruce budworm	19
Emergy ecological footprint analysis of Yaghooti grape production in the Sistan region of Iran	18
The landscape altered the interaction between vegetation and climate in the desert oasis of Hotan River Basin, Xinjiang, China	18
Metacommunity stability and persistence for predation turnoff in selective patches	18
Performance comparison of sewage treatment plants before and after their upgradation using emergy evaluation combined with economic analysis: A case from Southwest China	18
Revolutionising sustainability using a new triplet: A system dynamic model	18
A method for estimating biomass of age-0 fish in case of protracted spawning leading to multiple larval cohorts in the population	18
On the evolution of dispersal strategies under the costs of acquisition of private and social information	18
Informing Surveillance through the Characterization of Outbreak Potential of Chronic Wasting Disease in White-Tailed Deer	18
Assessing between-individual variability in bioenergetics modelling: Opportunities, challenges, and potential applications	17
Comparing distribution of harbour porpoise using generalized additive models and hierarchical Bayesian models with integrated nested laplace approximation	17
Combining CENTURY model and vulnerability assessment index to estimate aboveground biomass and ecological vulnerability of grassland: An analysis in Northwest Sichuan Plateau	17
Thermodynamic exploration of the adaptive cycle	17
Is toxicity a curse or blessing, or both?—Searching answer from a disease-induced consumer-resource system	17
An individual-based model for exploration of population and stock dynamics in marine fishes	17
Understanding the drivers of fish variability in an end-to-end model of the Northern Humboldt Current System	17
Parameter sensitivity and transferability for simulating ET and GPP of Dryland ecosystems across a climate gradient	17
Ecological effect of seasonally changing temperature on the life cycle of Aurelia aurita	17
Bush encroachment with climate change in protected and communal areas: A species distribution modelling approach	16
Spatial-temporal evolution of carbon storage and its driving factors in the Shanxi section of the Yellow River Basin, China	16
Correlated Random Walk of tuna in arrays of Fish Aggregating Devices: A field-based model from passive acoustic tagging	16
Does transfer of development rights (TDR) enhance or suppress ecosystem services? Evidence from Southern China	16
Advantages of experiential legacies are determined by interaction of environment and life history: A matrix-model approach	16
Combating over-commercialization in ecotourism through collaborative governance: A game-theoretic modeling analysis	16
Spatial mechanistic modelling to simulate movements and contacts between wildlife and livestock in Southern Africa	16
Modelling system dynamics as a socio-ecological perspective to support human-beaver interactions	16
Assessment of ecosystem contributions to provisioning services in South Korea using emergy methodology	16
Simulation of N2O emissions from greenhouse vegetable production under different management systems in North China	16
Dynamic energy budget modelling of anuran metamorphosis	16
Effects of temperature and salinity on growth of Aurelia aurita	16
Identifying optimal cloud cover for enhanced forest carbon uptake: Periodic-case NEE-overshoot modelling	16
Bridging gaps in agro-ecosystem integration: a multi-level modelling study in semi-arid Burkina Faso	16
Using Hidden Markov Models to develop ecosystem indicators from non-stationary time series	16
Current bioclimatic suitability and climate change impacts on the risk of cacao moniliasis invasion in Pará	15
Modeling soil carbon accumulation in irrigated agricultural systems	15
Canary palms in rural areas as invasion bridges: Exploring simulated red palm weevil spread across date palm plantations	15
Sector aggregation effect on embodied carbon emission based on city-centric global multi-region input-output (CCG-MRIO) model	15
Moths exhibit strong memory among cooperative species of other taxonomic groups: An empirical study	15
Multi-scenario spatial optimization for future development in arid and semi-arid regions based on early warning of ecological risk	15
The aerobic scope is clearly linked to the supply–demand spectrum as quantified by DEB theory	15
Simulating critical nutrient loadings of regime shift in the shallow plateau Lake Dianchi	15
Field-scale simulation of runoff and water quality in a paddy field: A study of novel RWQSPad model	15
New applications of an old individual-based model for biological dynamics	15
Real world data for real world problems: Importance of appropriate spatial resolution modelling to inform decision makers in marine management	15
Multiscale habitat suitability modeling for a threatened raptor offers insight into ecological model transferability	15
Comparing commonly used aquatic habitat modeling methods for native fish	14
Analyzing sustainable development strategies through multi-method integration in the Green Economy Model	14
Corrigendum to ‘Modeling mixoplankton along the biogeochemical gradient of the Southern North Sea’ Ecological Modelling 458 (2021) 0304-3800/109690	14
Unifying occupancy-detection and local frequency scaling (Frescalo) models	14
Systems modeling for agroecology and land restoration	14
A quantitative application of diffusion of innovations for modeling the spread of conservation behaviors	14
Advances in dynamic energy budget modeling of terrestrial arthropods by considering different timing of reproductive investment	14
Dynamic evolution and simulation of habitat quality in arid regions: A case study of the Hexi region, China	14
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Does climate change stimulate citizens' responses to conserving urban forest? Insights from stimulus-organism-response theory	14
Attractor of a neutral individual-based forest model captures spatiotemporal structure characteristics of a mature tropical forest	14
Development of models for sustainable green mussel cultivation under climate change events	14
Improving species distribution models for climate change studies: ecological plausibility and performance metrics	14
A spatially explicit model of tree leaf litter accumulation in fire maintained longleaf pine forests of the southeastern US	14
When does artificial intelligence replace process-based models in ecological modelling?	14
Operationalizing ecosystem service flows in land-use planning: Mitigating ecological risks through dynamic compensation	14
Dryland vegetation pattern dynamics driven by inertial effects and secondary seed dispersal	14
An exploration of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) factors simulated by SCOPE for capturing GPP across vegetation types	14
Preparing for and managing crown-of-thorns starfish outbreaks on reefs under threat from interacting anthropogenic stressors	13
Quantitative evaluation of the effects of bycatch on native species using mathematical models	13
Individual variability and persistence of competing species in resource rich environment: an individual-based model	13
From local to regional: Enhancing groundwater management with simulation models like MODFLOW and geospatial technologies	13
A new interval meta-goal programming for sustainable planning of agricultural water-land use nexus	13
A data-driven high spatial resolution model of biomass accumulation and crop yield: Application to a fragmented desert-oasis agroecosystem	13
Predicting shifts in demography of Orbicella franksi following simulated disturbance and restoration	13
Modeling canopy-forming vs. turfing algae competition via a space-implicit model with border dynamics	13
Howard T. Odum’s contributions to evolutionary theory	13

Impacts of land-use intensity on ecosystems stability	13
Ecological modeling and parameter estimation for predator–prey dynamics in a closed habitat: A case study of Isle Royale	13
Impact of different invasion methods of invasive species on omnivorous food webs	13
Self-healing time of population under dynamic disturbance	13
Hybrid biogeography-based optimization and Mamdani fuzzy modelling for physical habitat suitability modelling under limited data conditions	13
The application of a plant community model to evaluate adaptation strategies for alleviating climate change impacts on grassland productivity, biodiversity and forage quality	13
A state-space model for estimating pinniped pup production from serial counts at breeding colonies	13
A model-data synergy framework for assessing and enhancing runoff control in sponge cities: Sensitivity-driven calibration and multi-tiered monitoring integration	13
A GIS-based approach for managing catch-and-release fisheries	12
An analytical solution for optimising multi-species detection surveys	12
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 Chile	12
How much is enough? Optimizing beehive stocking densities to maximize the production of a pollinator-dependent crop	12
Fungal pathogen transmission dynamics in North American salamanders: Mathematical insights for disease management	12
System evolution model of human disturbances in panda habitats	12
The echoes of ecological collapse: how noise pollution disturbs trophic dynamics and food web stability	12
Editorial Board	12
Corrigendum to "Comparing the performance of global, geographically weighted and ecologically weighted species distribution models for Scottish wildcats using GLM and Random Forest predictive modeling	12
Productivity-environment models for Scots pine plantations in Bulgaria: an interaction of anthropogenic origin peculiarities and climate change	12
Production potential of seaweed and shellfish integrated aquaculture in Narragansett Bay (Rhode Island, U.S.) using an ecosystem model	12
Modeling Tree Recovery in Wind-Disturbed Forests with Dense Understory Species under Climate Change	12
Climatic sensitivity of seasonal ice-cover, water temperature and biogeochemical cycling in Lake 239 of the Experimental Lakes Area (ELA), Ontario, Canada	12
Using interaction profile to measure species uniqueness in food webs	12
Sampling effort required for fitting spatially explicit models of species distribution dynamics	12
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Climate covariate selection influences MaxEnt model predictions and predictive accuracy under current and future climates	12
Fish survival subject to algal bloom: Resource-based growth models with algal digestion delay and detritus-nutrient recycling delay	12
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 forests	12
Improving forest gross primary productivity estimation through climate and trait integration	11
Modeling food dependent symbiosis in Exaiptasia pallida	11
Multi-objective optimization of forest ecosystem services under uncertainty	11
Constructing time-series submerged aquatic vegetation by integrating process-based modeling and satellite images	11
Eco-evo conflicts in a stage-structured mutualism: modeling the consequences of ontogenetic variation in host quality	11
H.T. Odum’s contributions to springs ecology and treatment wetlands	11
Dynamic temperature sensitivity improves simulated ecosystem respiration in a coupled land-atmosphere model	11
Bayesian multi-level calibration of a process-based maize phenology model	11
Modeling urban growth effects on carrying capacity in arid and semi-arid regions using system dynamics	11
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Methods for comparing theoretical models parameterized with field data using biological criteria and Sobol analysis	11
Which rice farming system is more environmentally friendly in Khuzestan province, Iran? A study based on emergy analysis	11
Analysis of a mathematical model for golden mussels infestation	11
Temporal transferability of species abundance models to study the changes of breeding bird species based on land cover changes	11
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A spatiotemporal SEIR model for predicting wheat stripe and leaf rusts epidemics	11
Potential thermal safety margin for plant photosynthesis derived from local temperature variability	11
Effect of study area extent on the potential distribution of Species: A case study with models for Raoiella indica Hirst (Acari: Tenuipalpidae)	11
Integrated emergy and exergy research through co-citation analysis: Knowledge bases, evolutionary trajectories and frontier frameworks	11
From farm to food systems: developing aquaculture models to explore their role in food systems	11
Using system equalization principle to study the effects of multiple factors to the development of bee colony	11
Landscape ecology and urban spatial configuration: Exploring a methodological relationship. Application in Pelotas, Brazil	11
Mathematical validation of cleaning symbiosis between Macrobrachium lamarrei and Labeo rohita as an effective bio-control method against Argulus bengalensis	10
Integrating equity and justice in marine ecosystem models: An incremental but meaningful approach	10
Modeling population dynamics of Eotetranychus kankitus in peach orchards: The role of varietal effects	10
Analysis of the sustainability index for ecologically low-input integrated farming: A comprehensive assessment of environmental, economic, and social impact	10
Spatiotemporal evolution of county level ecological security based on an emergy ecological footprint model: The case of Dingxi, China	10
When does management using artificial intelligence lead to unintended consequences? A case study using ‘smart’ traps	10
Multi-sectoral analysis of smarter urban nitrogen metabolism: A case study of Suzhou, China	10
Modelling the spatial shifts of functional groups in the Barents Sea using a climate-driven spatial food web model	10
What grows, adapts and lives in the digital sphere? Systematic literature review on the dynamic modelling of flora and fauna in digital twins	10
Balancing act: A participatory system dynamics approach for Mar Menor’s sustainable future	10
Interpreting stoichiometric homeostasis and flexibility of soil microbial biomass carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus	10
Development of interval transient pollution distribution model and its application in the Fenghuangshan drinking water source	10
Using structural equation models (SEM) to link climate change, forest composition, deer, and outdoor recreation	10
Nonlinear impacts of climate change on dengue transmission in mainland China: Underlying mechanisms and future projection	10
Contrasting occupancy models with presence-only models: Does accounting for detection lead to better predictions?	10
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 Qinzho	10
Evaluating the skill of correlative species distribution models trained with mechanistic model output	10
The effect of dispersal area on the extinction threshold	10
Resilience, indirect effects and cycling in ecological networks	10
On the use of machine learning methods to improve the estimation of gross primary productivity of maize field with drip irrigation	10
Investigating the need to replace the conventional method of sugar beet production in lorestan province, iran based on the arguments obtained from emergy calculations	10
Model-based experiments as epistemic evidence in paleoecology	10
Crossing paths between empirical ecologists and meta-ecology modellers to advance marine functional connectivity estimation and prediction	10
Can large language models implement agent-based models? An ODD-based replication study	10
Using the ODD protocol and NetLogo to replicate agent-based models	10
Ecological flow considering hydrological season and habitat suitability for a variety of fish	10
Modelling farmland dynamics in response to farmer decisions using an advanced irrigation-related agent-based model	10
Algorithms going wild – A review of machine learning techniques for terrestrial ecology	10
Information sharing promotes bacterial diversity in oligotrophic environment with low-dose X-ray radiation based on modeling and simulation of agent-based model	10
Computational assessment of Amazon forest plots regrowth capacity under strong spatial variability for simulating logging scenarios	10
Are maximum yields sustainable? Effect of intra-annual time-scales on MSY, stability and resilience	10
LoggingLab: An R package to simulate reduced-impact selective logging in tropical forests using forest inventory data	10
Dynamic distribution modelling using a native invasive species, the mountain pine beetle	9
Adapting a dynamic system model using life traits and local fishery knowledge — Application to a population of exploited marine bivalves (Ruditapes philippinarum) in a mesotidal coastal lagoon	9
Development of a semi-empirical net ecosystem exchange model for Biebrza wetlands to study their sensitivity to climatic extremes and multi-year variability	9
Fine-scale surface complexity promotes temperature extremes but reduces the spatial extent of refugia on coastal rocks	9
Understanding predator-prey-competitor dynamics between Lower Missouri River Macrhybopsis and Scaphirhynchus using a population—bioenergetics model ensemble	9
Optimal urban expansion rates for balancing ecosystem services and economic development in mega-city fringe areas: A modeling framework applied to Huadu district, Guangzhou	9
Dynamics of a coupled socio-environmental model: An application to global CO2 emissions	9
The metabolic interpretation of the von Bertalanffy growth rate	9
Predicting frugivore generated seed rain in different environmental contexts: a modelling approach applied to a forest specialist	9
Corrigendum to ‘A decade of mizer: A systematic review of advancements and applications of size spectrum modeling in aquatic ecosystems’ [Ecological Modelling, Volume 508, September 2025, 111241]	9
Investigating the effect of pesticides on Daphnia population dynamics by inferring structure and parameters of a stochastic model	9
How can oak regeneration in the Leipzig Floodplain Forest be effectively supported by femel plantations? Application of a demographic forest model	9
Research on the shallow landslide stability of vegetated slopes with expansive soils based on root morphology	9
The role of squid for food web structure and community-level metabolism	9