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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
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Simplifying a complex computer model: Sensitivity analysis and metamodelling of an 3D individual-based crop-weed canopy model273
Modified framework to reflect contribution of soil storage in emergy synthesis under different agricultural practices at farm level171
Modelling the effects of copepod diel vertical migration and community structure on ocean carbon flux using an agent-based model149
Spatial patterns of correlation between conspecific species and size diversity in forest ecosystems129
Real-time assessment of live forest fuel moisture content and flammability by using space-time universal kriging68
Effects of a mobile disturbance pattern on dynamic patch networks and metapopulation persistence63
Mathematical modeling in behavior responses: The tendency-prediction based on a persistence model on real-time data62
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A protocol for implementing parameter sensitivity analyses in complex ecosystem models40
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Corrigendum to Insights into the environmental conditions contributing to variability in the larval recruitment of the tropical sardine Sardinella lemuru37
Estimating stomatal conductance under drought: Parameterizing a phenomenological model and evaluating roles of the energy balance equation35
A bioenergetics model for seasonal growth of Indian oil sardine (Sardinella longiceps) in the Indian west coast35
Multimedia fates and ecological risk control strategies of phthalic acid esters in a lake recharged by reclaimed water using the QWASI fugacity model34
Optimising profits from timber harvest and the biodiversity conservation value in a central European beech forest using a novel bioeconomic forestry model34
Calibration and validation of the AquaCrop model for production arrangements of forage cactus and grass in a semi-arid environment34
Analysis of carbon emission drivers and peak carbon forecasts for island economies33
Impact of population growth and housing development on the riverine environment: Identifying environmental threat and solution in the Wanggu River, Indonesia31
Modelling assessment of how small-scale vertical movements of infectious sea lice larvae can affect their large-scale distribution in fjordic systems30
Individual-based modelling of adaptive physiological traits of cyanobacteria: Responses to light history28
Resource objective wildfire leveraged to restore old growth forest structure while stabilizing carbon stocks in the southwestern United States28
Modeling collective motion for fish schooling via multi-agent reinforcement learning28
Simulation of forest carbon fluxes by integrating remote sensing data into biome-BGC model27
A new model formulation for host depletion in parasitoids27
Snow runoff modelling in the upper Indus River Basin and its implication to energy water food nexus27
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Machine-learning modeling on tree mortality and growth reduction of temperate forests with climatic and ecophysiological parameters26
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) 11025
Incorporating biodiversity impacts in land use decisions24
Mechanistic simulations of kelp populations in a dynamic landscape of light, temperature, and winter storms24
Seasonal pattern of dengue infection in Singapore: A mechanism-based modeling and prediction23
Individual-based modeling of shelled pteropods23
Reconsidering the Price equation: Benchmarking the analytical power of additive partitioning in ecology23
Addition of finer scale data and uncertainty analysis increases precision of geospatial suitability model for non-native plants in the US23
Intelligent classification model of land resource use using deep learning in remote sensing images23
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
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 abundanc23
Indirect effects of pine marten recovery result in benefits to native prey through suppression of an invasive species and a shared pathogen22
Separating acoustic signal into underlying behaviors with self-exciting point process models22
Modelling the dynamics of soil moisture and soil water salinity in tropical saltmarshes22
Unfolding carbon inequality across Belt and Road Initiative countries and regions under a global trade network22
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
One century of carbon dynamics in the eastern Canadian boreal forest under various management strategies and climate change projections21
Development and application of a bioenergetics growth model for multiple early life stages of an ecologically important marine fish21
Coastal generalized ecosystem model (CGEM) 1.0: Flexible model formulations for simulating complex biogeochemical processes in aquatic ecosystems21
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Modelling interactive effects of biological and environmental factors on fine-scale coral settlement patterns20
Building ecosystem services-based ecological networks in energy and chemical industry areas20
“Teaching ‘Process Ecology’ at the Undergraduate Level: A Curricular Response to a Latent Yearning for an Ecologically-Based Understanding of Transdisciplinary Realities”20
Estimating the fundamental niche: Accounting for the uneven availability of existing climates in the calibration area19
A comparison of machine learning and statistical species distribution models: Quantifying overfitting supports model interpretation19
Long-term assessment of land-use and climate change on water scarcity in an arid basin in Iran19
Functional responses in habitat selection as a management tool to evaluate agri-environment schemes for farmland birds19
Corrigendum to ‘Agent-based modelling of juvenile eel migration via selective tidal stream transport’ [Ecological Modelling 443 (2021) 109448]19
How sustainable development goals have transformed our world? Evolution of the ecological networks of the Italian economy19
Analysis of simulated trap counts arising from correlated and biased random walks19
Land suitability assessment and self-sufficiency evaluation for fodder crop production in a hyper arid environment coupling GIS-based multi-criteria decision making and optimization19
Comparison of several models for estimating gross primary production of drip-irrigated maize in arid regions19
Age structured partial differential equations model for Culex mosquito abundance18
A method for estimating biomass of age-0 fish in case of protracted spawning leading to multiple larval cohorts in the population18
Performance comparison of sewage treatment plants before and after their upgradation using emergy evaluation combined with economic analysis: A case from Southwest China18
Modeling of the spread of non-adaptive traits in a natural population due to self-compatibility18
Assessing between-individual variability in bioenergetics modelling: Opportunities, challenges, and potential applications18
Revolutionising sustainability using a new triplet: A system dynamic model18
Modeling drought mortality and resilience of savannas and forests in tropical Asia18
Is toxicity a curse or blessing, or both?—Searching answer from a disease-induced consumer-resource system18
Informing Surveillance through the Characterization of Outbreak Potential of Chronic Wasting Disease in White-Tailed Deer17
Combining CENTURY model and vulnerability assessment index to estimate aboveground biomass and ecological vulnerability of grassland: An analysis in Northwest Sichuan Plateau17
Emergy ecological footprint analysis of Yaghooti grape production in the Sistan region of Iran17
A Monte-Carlo based 3-D ballistics model for guiding bat carcass surveys using environmental and turbine operational data17
Species profiles support recommendations for quality filtering of opportunistic citizen science data17
Bush encroachment with climate change in protected and communal areas: A species distribution modelling approach17
Metacommunity stability and persistence for predation turnoff in selective patches17
Integrating ecosystem services modeling and efficiencies in decision-support models conceptualization for watershed management17
Spatial-temporal evolution of carbon storage and its driving factors in the Shanxi section of the Yellow River Basin, China17
Dynamic energy budget modelling of anuran metamorphosis16
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On the evolution of dispersal strategies under the costs of acquisition of private and social information16
Spatial mechanistic modelling to simulate movements and contacts between wildlife and livestock in Southern Africa16
Demystifying Monte Carlo methods in R: A guide from Metropolis–Hastings to Hamiltonian Monte Carlo with biological growth equation examples16
Framing settlement systems as spatial adaptive systems16
An individual-based model for exploration of population and stock dynamics in marine fishes15
Parameter sensitivity and transferability for simulating ET and GPP of Dryland ecosystems across a climate gradient15
Ecological effect of seasonally changing temperature on the life cycle of Aurelia aurita15
Comparing distribution of harbour porpoise using generalized additive models and hierarchical Bayesian models with integrated nested laplace approximation15
Effects of temperature and salinity on growth of Aurelia aurita15
Understanding the drivers of fish variability in an end-to-end model of the Northern Humboldt Current System15
Predicting the potential impact of forest fires on runoff and sediment loads using a distributed hydrological modeling approach15
The landscape altered the interaction between vegetation and climate in the desert oasis of Hotan River Basin, Xinjiang, China15
Uncertainty in forecasting land cover land use at a watershed scale: Towards enhanced sustainable land management15
Energy-systems accounting in industrial-natural systems; An energy analysis of a managed forest ecosystem including food web biomass dynamics15
A dynamic outbreak distribution model (DODM) for an irruptive folivore: The western spruce budworm15
Canary palms in rural areas as invasion bridges: Exploring simulated red palm weevil spread across date palm plantations14
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Moths exhibit strong memory among cooperative species of other taxonomic groups: An empirical study14
Modeling the life cycle of four types of phytoplankton and their bloom mechanisms in a benthic-pelagic coupled ecosystem14
Simulation of N2O emissions from greenhouse vegetable production under different management systems in North China14
Field-scale simulation of runoff and water quality in a paddy field: A study of novel RWQSPad model14
Modelling system dynamics as a socio-ecological perspective to support human-beaver interactions14
Modeling soil carbon accumulation in irrigated agricultural systems14
When does artificial intelligence replace process-based models in ecological modelling?14
Correlated Random Walk of tuna in arrays of Fish Aggregating Devices: A field-based model from passive acoustic tagging13
Identifying optimal cloud cover for enhanced forest carbon uptake: Periodic-case NEE-overshoot modelling13
Current bioclimatic suitability and climate change impacts on the risk of cacao moniliasis invasion in Pará13
Dynamic evolution and simulation of habitat quality in arid regions: A case study of the Hexi region, China13
DiaThor: R package for computing diatom metrics and biotic indices13
Analyzing sustainable development strategies through multi-method integration in the Green Economy Model13
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 con13
Understanding plankton ecosystem dynamics under realistic micro-scale variability requires modeling at least three trophic levels13
Using Hidden Markov Models to develop ecosystem indicators from non-stationary time series13
Comparing commonly used aquatic habitat modeling methods for native fish13
An exploration of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) factors simulated by SCOPE for capturing GPP across vegetation types12
Sector aggregation effect on embodied carbon emission based on city-centric global multi-region input-output (CCG-MRIO) model12
Real world data for real world problems: Importance of appropriate spatial resolution modelling to inform decision makers in marine management12
A multispecies size-structured matrix model incorporating seasonal dynamics12
Preparing for and managing crown-of-thorns starfish outbreaks on reefs under threat from interacting anthropogenic stressors12
Modeling terrestrial net ecosystem exchange using machine learning techniques based on flux tower measurements12
Attractor of a neutral individual-based forest model captures spatiotemporal structure characteristics of a mature tropical forest12
A spatially explicit model of tree leaf litter accumulation in fire maintained longleaf pine forests of the southeastern US12
The impact of dynamic wind flow behavior on forest fire spread using cellular automata: Application to the watershed BOUKHALEF (Morocco)12
Multiscale habitat suitability modeling for a threatened raptor offers insight into ecological model transferability12
Coefficients of association between nominal and fully ranked ordinal variables with applications to ecological network analysis12
Corrigendum to ‘Modeling mixoplankton along the biogeochemical gradient of the Southern North Sea’ Ecological Modelling 458 (2021) 0304-3800/10969012
Growth acceleration is the key for identifying the most favorable food concentration of Artemia sp.12
Predicting shifts in demography of Orbicella franksi following simulated disturbance and restoration12
Does climate change stimulate citizens' responses to conserving urban forest? Insights from stimulus-organism-response theory12
Simulating critical nutrient loadings of regime shift in the shallow plateau Lake Dianchi12
New applications of an old individual-based model for biological dynamics12
Self-healing time of population under dynamic disturbance12
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Controls and characteristics of biomass quantization in size-structured planktonic ecosystem models12
Decoding information in multilayer ecological networks: The keystone species case12
Modelling the effects of urbanization on nutrients pollution for prospective management of a tropical watershed: A case study of Skudai River watershed11
Development of models for sustainable green mussel cultivation under climate change events11
Insights into the environmental conditions contributing to variability in the larval recruitment of the tropical sardine Sardinella lemuru11
A new interval meta-goal programming for sustainable planning of agricultural water-land use nexus11
Impacts of land-use intensity on ecosystems stability11
A quantitative application of diffusion of innovations for modeling the spread of conservation behaviors11
Dryland vegetation pattern dynamics driven by inertial effects and secondary seed dispersal11
Spatiotemporal changes of ecosystem services value by incorporating planning policies: A case of the Pearl River Delta, China11
Impact of different invasion methods of invasive species on omnivorous food webs11
Quantitative evaluation of the effects of bycatch on native species using mathematical models11
The application of a plant community model to evaluate adaptation strategies for alleviating climate change impacts on grassland productivity, biodiversity and forage quality11
A data-driven high spatial resolution model of biomass accumulation and crop yield: Application to a fragmented desert-oasis agroecosystem11
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Disentangling the relative influence of regeneration processes on marsh plant assembly with a stage-structured plant assembly model10
Fungal pathogen transmission dynamics in North American salamanders: Mathematical insights for disease management10
Modeling the temporal dynamics of gut microbiota from a local community perspective10
Climate covariate selection influences MaxEnt model predictions and predictive accuracy under current and future climates10
Bifurcation analysis and global dynamics in a predator–prey system of Leslie type with an increasing functional response10
Potential thermal safety margin for plant photosynthesis derived from local temperature variability10
Production potential of seaweed and shellfish integrated aquaculture in Narragansett Bay (Rhode Island, U.S.) using an ecosystem model10
Corrigendum to "Comparing the performance of global, geographically weighted and ecologically weighted species distribution models for Scottish wildcats using GLM and Random Forest predictive modeling10
The emergence of imperfect philopatry and fidelity in spatially and temporally heterogeneous environments10
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A GIS-based approach for managing catch-and-release fisheries10
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 forests10
System evolution model of human disturbances in panda habitats10
Integrating metabolic scaling variation into the maximum entropy theory of ecology explains Taylor's law for individual metabolic rate in tropical forests10
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Sampling effort required for fitting spatially explicit models of species distribution dynamics10
Multi-objective optimization of forest ecosystem services under uncertainty10
A computational model approach to assess the effect of climate change on the growth and development of tadpoles10
Bayesian multi-level calibration of a process-based maize phenology model10
Transient perturbations reveal distinct strategies for reserve benefits in life history-dependent ecosystems9
Landscape ecology and urban spatial configuration: Exploring a methodological relationship. Application in Pelotas, Brazil9
How much is enough? Optimizing beehive stocking densities to maximize the production of a pollinator-dependent crop9
Methods for comparing theoretical models parameterized with field data using biological criteria and Sobol analysis9
Resilience, indirect effects and cycling in ecological networks9
Growing at the edge: Modelling sapling colonization, performance, and effective range of mountain birch (Betula pubescens ssp. tortuosa)9
Contrasting occupancy models with presence-only models: Does accounting for detection lead to better predictions?9
Modelling farmland dynamics in response to farmer decisions using an advanced irrigation-related agent-based model9
Evaluating the skill of correlative species distribution models trained with mechanistic model output9
Constructing time-series submerged aquatic vegetation by integrating process-based modeling and satellite images9
Nonlinear impacts of climate change on dengue transmission in mainland China: Underlying mechanisms and future projection9
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Climatic sensitivity of seasonal ice-cover, water temperature and biogeochemical cycling in Lake 239 of the Experimental Lakes Area (ELA), Ontario, Canada9
Modeling urban growth effects on carrying capacity in arid and semi-arid regions using system dynamics9
Forecasting impacts of biological control under future climates: mechanistic modelling of an aphid pest and a parasitic wasp9
Sustainable development of territorial units: MCDM approach with optimal tail selection9
Which rice farming system is more environmentally friendly in Khuzestan province, Iran? A study based on emergy analysis9
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 Chile9
Spatial structure of natural boxwood and the invasive box tree moth can promote coexistence9
Integrating equity and justice in marine ecosystem models: An incremental but meaningful approach9
Computational assessment of Amazon forest plots regrowth capacity under strong spatial variability for simulating logging scenarios9
Landscape-scale drivers of endangered Cape Sable Seaside Sparrow (Ammospiza maritima mirabilis) presence using an ensemble modeling approach9
Using system equalization principle to study the effects of multiple factors to the development of bee colony9
Temporal transferability of species abundance models to study the changes of breeding bird species based on land cover changes9
Multi-sectoral analysis of smarter urban nitrogen metabolism: A case study of Suzhou, China9
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Effect of study area extent on the potential distribution of Species: A case study with models for Raoiella indica Hirst (Acari: Tenuipalpidae)9
Changes in algal bloom dynamics in a regulated large river in response to eutrophic status9
Fish survival subject to algal bloom: Resource-based growth models with algal digestion delay and detritus-nutrient recycling delay9
Analysis of a mathematical model for golden mussels infestation9
Modeling Tree Recovery in Wind-Disturbed Forests with Dense Understory Species under Climate Change9
The potential impacts of climate change on the distribution of key tree species and Cordyceps in Bhutan: Implications for ecological functions and rural livelihoods9
Productivity-environment models for Scots pine plantations in Bulgaria: an interaction of anthropogenic origin peculiarities and climate change9
Spatiotemporal evolution of county level ecological security based on an emergy ecological footprint model: The case of Dingxi, China9
Toward a better understanding of forest spatial patterns:A generalisation of the uniform angle index9
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 Qinzho9
Using the ODD protocol and NetLogo to replicate agent-based models9
Analysis of the sustainability index for ecologically low-input integrated farming: A comprehensive assessment of environmental, economic, and social impact9
Combined climate and regional mosquito habitat model based on machine learning9
Improving forest gross primary productivity estimation through climate and trait integration9
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Ecological flow considering hydrological season and habitat suitability for a variety of fish9
Modeling food dependent symbiosis in Exaiptasia pallida9
Modelling the spatial shifts of functional groups in the Barents Sea using a climate-driven spatial food web model9
Investigating the interactions between Chinese economic growth, energy consumption and its air environmental cost during 1989–2016 and forecasting their future trends8
Development of interval transient pollution distribution model and its application in the Fenghuangshan drinking water source8
Competition in forest plantations: Empirical and process-based modelling in pine and eucalypt plantations8
Using structural equation models (SEM) to link climate change, forest composition, deer, and outdoor recreation8
Optimization of deep learning model for coastal chlorophyll a dynamic forecast8
Interpreting stoichiometric homeostasis and flexibility of soil microbial biomass carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus8
Model-based experiments as epistemic evidence in paleoecology8
Analytical model for pullout behavior of root system8
Emergy theory to quantify the sustainability of large cascade hydropower projects in the upper Yangtze8
Simulating implications of fish behavioral response for managing hypoxia in estuaries with spatial dissolved oxygen variability8
Information sharing promotes bacterial diversity in oligotrophic environment with low-dose X-ray radiation based on modeling and simulation of agent-based model8
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Combined influences of environmental enrichment and harvesting mediate rich dynamics in an intraguild predation fishery system8
The Chesapeake Bay program modeling system: Overview and recommendations for future development8
What grows, adapts and lives in the digital sphere? Systematic literature review on the dynamic modelling of flora and fauna in digital twins8
Investigating the need to replace the conventional method of sugar beet production in lorestan province, iran based on the arguments obtained from emergy calculations8
The influence of phytoplankton size fractions on the carbon export ratio in the surface ocean8
On the use of machine learning methods to improve the estimation of gross primary productivity of maize field with drip irrigation8
Evolution of the concept of ecological integrity and its study through networks8
Assessing bivalve growth using bio-energetic models8
Modelling parasite-produced marine diseases: The case of the mass mortality event of Pinna nobilis8
A novel approach to explicitly model the spatiotemporal impacts of structural complexity created by alien ecosystem engineers in a marine benthic environment8
Defaunation and changes in climate and fire frequency have synergistic effects on aboveground biomass loss in the brazilian savanna8
Using GIS-based multicriteria decision analysis to prioritize invasive plant treatment: A creative solution for a pernicious problem8
LoggingLab: An R package to simulate reduced-impact selective logging in tropical forests using forest inventory data8
Diffusivity and bias movement velocity of Cryptolestes ferrugineus (Coleoptera: Laemophloeidae) adults under different temperature and moisture differences8
Are maximum yields sustainable? Effect of intra-annual time-scales on MSY, stability and resilience8
Integration of life cycle and habitat conditions in modeling fish biomass in the floodplain of the Lower Mekong Basin8
Dynamics of a coupled socio-environmental model: An application to global CO2 emissions7
Dynamic distribution modelling using a native invasive species, the mountain pine beetle7
Modelling human influences on biodiversity at a global scale–A human ecology perspective7
Modelling peatland development in high-boreal Quebec, Canada, with DigiBog_Boreal7
Competitive superiority of N-fixing cyanobacteria when fixed N is scarce: Reconsiderations based on a model with heterocyst differentiation7
Overcoming conceptual hurdles to accurately represent trees as cohorts in forest landscape models7
A Bayesian network with fuzzy mathematics for species habitat suitability analysis: A case with limited Angelica sinensis (Oliv.) Diels data7
Modeling Potential production and yield gap of potato using modelling and GIS approaches7
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