Ecological Modelling

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	229
A protocol for implementing parameter sensitivity analyses in complex ecosystem models	81
Modified framework to reflect contribution of soil storage in emergy synthesis under different agricultural practices at farm level	74
The critical challenge of nonstationarity in ecological modelling	70
The return of the Caracal Caracal caracal: 56 Years of Population Changes in Israel	68
Optimising profits from timber harvest and the biodiversity conservation value in a central European beech forest using a novel bioeconomic forestry model	64
Estimating stomatal conductance under drought: Parameterizing a phenomenological model and evaluating roles of the energy balance equation	61
A generational randomized growth model for fall-spawning Atlantic herring: Insights from real-world data	56
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Mathematical modeling in behavior responses: The tendency-prediction based on a persistence model on real-time data	43
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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 systems	41
Analysis of carbon emission drivers and peak carbon forecasts for island economies	40
Individual-based modelling of adaptive physiological traits of cyanobacteria: Responses to light history	38
Snow runoff modelling in the upper Indus River Basin and its implication to energy water food nexus	38
A new model formulation for host depletion in parasitoids	37
Multimedia fates and ecological risk control strategies of phthalic acid esters in a lake recharged by reclaimed water using the QWASI fugacity model	36
Modelling the effects of copepod diel vertical migration and community structure on ocean carbon flux using an agent-based model	35
Resource objective wildfire leveraged to restore old growth forest structure while stabilizing carbon stocks in the southwestern United States	35
Calibration and validation of the AquaCrop model for production arrangements of forage cactus and grass in a semi-arid environment	35
Machine-learning modeling on tree mortality and growth reduction of temperate forests with climatic and ecophysiological parameters	34
Modeling collective motion for fish schooling via multi-agent reinforcement learning	33
Real-time assessment of live forest fuel moisture content and flammability by using space-time universal kriging	32
Impact of population growth and housing development on the riverine environment: Identifying environmental threat and solution in the Wanggu River, Indonesia	32

Simulation of forest carbon fluxes by integrating remote sensing data into biome-BGC model	32
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Corrigendum to ‘The return of the Caracal (Caracal caracal): 56-years of population changes in Israel’ [Ecological Modelling 508 (2025):111197]	29
When can few-species models describe dynamics within a complex community?	29
Modelling interactive effects of biological and environmental factors on fine-scale coral settlement patterns	29
Coastal generalized ecosystem model (CGEM) 1.0: Flexible model formulations for simulating complex biogeochemical processes in aquatic ecosystems	28
Indirect effects of pine marten recovery result in benefits to native prey through suppression of an invasive species and a shared pathogen	28
Mechanistic simulations of kelp populations in a dynamic landscape of light, temperature, and winter storms	28
Balancing economics and ecology in ocean ecosystems: A bioeconomic predator-prey model	27
Less is more: Less herbicide does more when biological control is present in Pontederia crassipes	27
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	27
Modelling the effect of genotype (PRNP) linked to susceptibility, infection duration and prion shedding on chronic wasting disease dynamics of cervids	27
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Age structured partial differential equations model for Culex mosquito abundance	26
Intelligent classification model of land resource use using deep learning in remote sensing images	26
Addition of finer scale data and uncertainty analysis increases precision of geospatial suitability model for non-native plants in the US	25
Analysis of simulated trap counts arising from correlated and biased random walks	25
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	25
Separating acoustic signal into underlying behaviors with self-exciting point process models	25
Incorporating biodiversity impacts in land use decisions	24
Functional responses in habitat selection as a management tool to evaluate agri-environment schemes for farmland birds	23
Revisiting the dynamic simulation model of land-use changes in the Sudano-sahelian countries of Africa (SALU): An open-access application to Senegal	23
Modelling the dynamics of soil moisture and soil water salinity in tropical saltmarshes	23
Integrating functional connectivity and habitat stability into fish habitat assessment and optimizing ecological operation	22
Unfolding carbon inequality across Belt and Road Initiative countries and regions under a global trade network	22
Radial growth models for Pedunculate Oak in the Baltics, Latvia	22
“Teaching ‘Process Ecology’ at the Undergraduate Level: A Curricular Response to a Latent Yearning for an Ecologically-Based Understanding of Transdisciplinary Realities”	22
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	22
One century of carbon dynamics in the eastern Canadian boreal forest under various management strategies and climate change projections	21
How sustainable development goals have transformed our world? Evolution of the ecological networks of the Italian economy	21
Individual-based modeling of shelled pteropods	21
Estimating the fundamental niche: Accounting for the uneven availability of existing climates in the calibration area	21
Comparison of several models for estimating gross primary production of drip-irrigated maize in arid regions	21
Long-term assessment of land-use and climate change on water scarcity in an arid basin in Iran	21
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	21
A comparison of machine learning and statistical species distribution models: Quantifying overfitting supports model interpretation	20
Development and application of a bioenergetics growth model for multiple early life stages of an ecologically important marine fish	20
Reconsidering the Price equation: Benchmarking the analytical power of additive partitioning in ecology	20
Uncertainties in future ecosystem services under land and climate scenarios: The case of erosion in the Alps	20
Seasonal pattern of dengue infection in Singapore: A mechanism-based modeling and prediction	20
A method for estimating biomass of age-0 fish in case of protracted spawning leading to multiple larval cohorts in the population	19
Combating over-commercialization in ecotourism through collaborative governance: A game-theoretic modeling analysis	19
Understanding the drivers of fish variability in an end-to-end model of the Northern Humboldt Current System	19
Revolutionising sustainability using a new triplet: A system dynamic model	19
Framing settlement systems as spatial adaptive systems	19
Modeling of the spread of non-adaptive traits in a natural population due to self-compatibility	19
Building ecosystem services-based ecological networks in energy and chemical industry areas	19
Species profiles support recommendations for quality filtering of opportunistic citizen science data	19
Assessing between-individual variability in bioenergetics modelling: Opportunities, challenges, and potential applications	19
Modeling and analysis of maize agroecosystem dynamics with stresses	18

Spatial-temporal evolution of carbon storage and its driving factors in the Shanxi section of the Yellow River Basin, China	18
Thermodynamic exploration of the adaptive cycle	18
Simulation and analysis of dengue transmission dynamics using advanced fuzzy arithmetic	18
A Monte-Carlo based 3-D ballistics model for guiding bat carcass surveys using environmental and turbine operational data	18
Dynamic energy budget modelling of anuran metamorphosis	18
Spatial mechanistic modelling to simulate movements and contacts between wildlife and livestock in Southern Africa	18
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Is toxicity a curse or blessing, or both?—Searching answer from a disease-induced consumer-resource system	18
Corrigendum to “Unified process model-based assessment of environmental interactions and ecosystem services of a managed fishpond-reed agroecosystem” [Ecological Modelling 506 (2025) 111151]	18
Performance comparison of sewage treatment plants before and after their upgradation using emergy evaluation combined with economic analysis: A case from Southwest China	17
Integrating ecosystem services modeling and efficiencies in decision-support models conceptualization for watershed management	17
Informing Surveillance through the Characterization of Outbreak Potential of Chronic Wasting Disease in White-Tailed Deer	17
Modeling drought mortality and resilience of savannas and forests in tropical Asia	17
The landscape altered the interaction between vegetation and climate in the desert oasis of Hotan River Basin, Xinjiang, China	17
Effects of temperature and salinity on growth of Aurelia aurita	16
Parameter sensitivity and transferability for simulating ET and GPP of Dryland ecosystems across a climate gradient	16
Energy-systems accounting in industrial-natural systems; An energy analysis of a managed forest ecosystem including food web biomass dynamics	15
On the evolution of dispersal strategies under the costs of acquisition of private and social information	15
Emergy ecological footprint analysis of Yaghooti grape production in the Sistan region of Iran	15
Metacommunity stability and persistence for predation turnoff in selective patches	15
Predicting the potential impact of forest fires on runoff and sediment loads using a distributed hydrological modeling approach	15
Comparing distribution of harbour porpoise using generalized additive models and hierarchical Bayesian models with integrated nested laplace approximation	15
Uncertainty in forecasting land cover land use at a watershed scale: Towards enhanced sustainable land management	15
A dynamic outbreak distribution model (DODM) for an irruptive folivore: The western spruce budworm	15
Bush encroachment with climate change in protected and communal areas: A species distribution modelling approach	15
Combining CENTURY model and vulnerability assessment index to estimate aboveground biomass and ecological vulnerability of grassland: An analysis in Northwest Sichuan Plateau	15
An individual-based model for exploration of population and stock dynamics in marine fishes	15
Ecological effect of seasonally changing temperature on the life cycle of Aurelia aurita	15
Modeling soil carbon accumulation in irrigated agricultural systems	14
Correlated Random Walk of tuna in arrays of Fish Aggregating Devices: A field-based model from passive acoustic tagging	14
Field-scale simulation of runoff and water quality in a paddy field: A study of novel RWQSPad model	14
Comparing commonly used aquatic habitat modeling methods for native fish	14
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Moths exhibit strong memory among cooperative species of other taxonomic groups: An empirical study	14
Improving species distribution models for climate change studies: ecological plausibility and performance metrics	14
Understanding plankton ecosystem dynamics under realistic micro-scale variability requires modeling at least three trophic levels	14
Demystifying Monte Carlo methods in R: A guide from Metropolis–Hastings to Hamiltonian Monte Carlo with biological growth equation examples	14
Analyzing sustainable development strategies through multi-method integration in the Green Economy Model	14
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 con	13
DiaThor: R package for computing diatom metrics and biotic indices	13
Canary palms in rural areas as invasion bridges: Exploring simulated red palm weevil spread across date palm plantations	13
Multi-scenario spatial optimization for future development in arid and semi-arid regions based on early warning of ecological risk	13
Using Hidden Markov Models to develop ecosystem indicators from non-stationary time series	13
Multiscale habitat suitability modeling for a threatened raptor offers insight into ecological model transferability	13
Modeling the life cycle of four types of phytoplankton and their bloom mechanisms in a benthic-pelagic coupled ecosystem	13
Simulating critical nutrient loadings of regime shift in the shallow plateau Lake Dianchi	13
Identifying optimal cloud cover for enhanced forest carbon uptake: Periodic-case NEE-overshoot modelling	13
Current bioclimatic suitability and climate change impacts on the risk of cacao moniliasis invasion in Pará	13
Sector aggregation effect on embodied carbon emission based on city-centric global multi-region input-output (CCG-MRIO) model	13
New applications of an old individual-based model for biological dynamics	13
The impact of dynamic wind flow behavior on forest fire spread using cellular automata: Application to the watershed BOUKHALEF (Morocco)	13
Modelling system dynamics as a socio-ecological perspective to support human-beaver interactions	12
Self-healing time of population under dynamic disturbance	12
A quantitative application of diffusion of innovations for modeling the spread of conservation behaviors	12
Preparing for and managing crown-of-thorns starfish outbreaks on reefs under threat from interacting anthropogenic stressors	12
The application of a plant community model to evaluate adaptation strategies for alleviating climate change impacts on grassland productivity, biodiversity and forage quality	12
Simulation of N2O emissions from greenhouse vegetable production under different management systems in North China	12
Dynamic evolution and simulation of habitat quality in arid regions: A case study of the Hexi region, China	12
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Development of models for sustainable green mussel cultivation under climate change events	12
Ecological modeling and parameter estimation for predator–prey dynamics in a closed habitat: A case study of Isle Royale	12
Corrigendum to ‘Modeling mixoplankton along the biogeochemical gradient of the Southern North Sea’ Ecological Modelling 458 (2021) 0304-3800/109690	12
Dryland vegetation pattern dynamics driven by inertial effects and secondary seed dispersal	12
A spatially explicit model of tree leaf litter accumulation in fire maintained longleaf pine forests of the southeastern US	12
Real world data for real world problems: Importance of appropriate spatial resolution modelling to inform decision makers in marine management	12
A state-space model for estimating pinniped pup production from serial counts at breeding colonies	12
Attractor of a neutral individual-based forest model captures spatiotemporal structure characteristics of a mature tropical forest	12
Howard T. Odum’s contributions to evolutionary theory	12
Controls and characteristics of biomass quantization in size-structured planktonic ecosystem models	12
When does artificial intelligence replace process-based models in ecological modelling?	12
Does climate change stimulate citizens' responses to conserving urban forest? Insights from stimulus-organism-response theory	12
A new interval meta-goal programming for sustainable planning of agricultural water-land use nexus	11
Systems modeling for agroecology and land restoration	11
Impact of different invasion methods of invasive species on omnivorous food webs	11
Coefficients of association between nominal and fully ranked ordinal variables with applications to ecological network analysis	11
A spatiotemporal SEIR model for predicting wheat stripe and leaf rusts epidemics	11
System evolution model of human disturbances in panda habitats	11
Transient perturbations reveal distinct strategies for reserve benefits in life history-dependent ecosystems	11
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Fish survival subject to algal bloom: Resource-based growth models with algal digestion delay and detritus-nutrient recycling delay	11

Spatiotemporal changes of ecosystem services value by incorporating planning policies: A case of the Pearl River Delta, China	11
Modeling terrestrial net ecosystem exchange using machine learning techniques based on flux tower measurements	11
Predicting shifts in demography of Orbicella franksi following simulated disturbance and restoration	11
A data-driven high spatial resolution model of biomass accumulation and crop yield: Application to a fragmented desert-oasis agroecosystem	11
Quantitative evaluation of the effects of bycatch on native species using mathematical models	11
Potential thermal safety margin for plant photosynthesis derived from local temperature variability	11
Modeling food dependent symbiosis in Exaiptasia pallida	11
Fungal pathogen transmission dynamics in North American salamanders: Mathematical insights for disease management	11
A GIS-based approach for managing catch-and-release fisheries	11
Impacts of land-use intensity on ecosystems stability	11
An exploration of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) factors simulated by SCOPE for capturing GPP across vegetation types	11
The emergence of imperfect philopatry and fidelity in spatially and temporally heterogeneous environments	11
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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	11
Sampling effort required for fitting spatially explicit models of species distribution dynamics	11
Modeling Tree Recovery in Wind-Disturbed Forests with Dense Understory Species under Climate Change	11
Production potential of seaweed and shellfish integrated aquaculture in Narragansett Bay (Rhode Island, U.S.) using an ecosystem model	11
An analytical solution for optimising multi-species detection surveys	11
A computational model approach to assess the effect of climate change on the growth and development of tadpoles	10
Using interaction profile to measure species uniqueness in food webs	10
Productivity-environment models for Scots pine plantations in Bulgaria: an interaction of anthropogenic origin peculiarities and climate change	10
Constructing time-series submerged aquatic vegetation by integrating process-based modeling and satellite images	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
Modelling farmland dynamics in response to farmer decisions using an advanced irrigation-related agent-based model	10
Landscape ecology and urban spatial configuration: Exploring a methodological relationship. Application in Pelotas, Brazil	10
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Climate covariate selection influences MaxEnt model predictions and predictive accuracy under current and future climates	10
Climatic sensitivity of seasonal ice-cover, water temperature and biogeochemical cycling in Lake 239 of the Experimental Lakes Area (ELA), Ontario, Canada	10
How much is enough? Optimizing beehive stocking densities to maximize the production of a pollinator-dependent crop	10
Nonlinear impacts of climate change on dengue transmission in mainland China: Underlying mechanisms and future projection	10
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Spatiotemporal evolution of county level ecological security based on an emergy ecological footprint model: The case of Dingxi, China	10
Landscape-scale drivers of endangered Cape Sable Seaside Sparrow (Ammospiza maritima mirabilis) presence using an ensemble modeling approach	10
Multi-sectoral analysis of smarter urban nitrogen metabolism: A case study of Suzhou, China	10
Effect of study area extent on the potential distribution of Species: A case study with models for Raoiella indica Hirst (Acari: Tenuipalpidae)	10
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	10
Multi-objective optimization of forest ecosystem services under uncertainty	10
Modeling urban growth effects on carrying capacity in arid and semi-arid regions using system dynamics	10
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	10
Contrasting occupancy models with presence-only models: Does accounting for detection lead to better predictions?	10
H.T. Odum’s contributions to springs ecology and treatment wetlands	10
Using system equalization principle to study the effects of multiple factors to the development of bee colony	10
Improving forest gross primary productivity estimation through climate and trait integration	10
Temporal transferability of species abundance models to study the changes of breeding bird species based on land cover changes	10
Bayesian multi-level calibration of a process-based maize phenology model	10
Algorithms going wild – A review of machine learning techniques for terrestrial ecology	9
Which rice farming system is more environmentally friendly in Khuzestan province, Iran? A study based on emergy analysis	9
Ecological flow considering hydrological season and habitat suitability for a variety of fish	9
Toward a better understanding of forest spatial patterns:A generalisation of the uniform angle index	9
Analytical model for pullout behavior of root system	9
Model-based experiments as epistemic evidence in paleoecology	9
Integrating equity and justice in marine ecosystem models: An incremental but meaningful approach	9
Assessing bivalve growth using bio-energetic models	9
Growing at the edge: Modelling sapling colonization, performance, and effective range of mountain birch (Betula pubescens ssp. tortuosa)	9
Analysis of a mathematical model for golden mussels infestation	9
Evaluating the skill of correlative species distribution models trained with mechanistic model output	9
Spatial structure of natural boxwood and the invasive box tree moth can promote coexistence	9
Simulating implications of fish behavioral response for managing hypoxia in estuaries with spatial dissolved oxygen variability	9
Interpreting stoichiometric homeostasis and flexibility of soil microbial biomass carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus	9
The influence of phytoplankton size fractions on the carbon export ratio in the surface ocean	9
Computational assessment of Amazon forest plots regrowth capacity under strong spatial variability for simulating logging scenarios	9
Lotka-Volterra at 100: How predator-prey modeling became a universal framework	9
Using the ODD protocol and NetLogo to replicate agent-based models	9
Modelling the spatial shifts of functional groups in the Barents Sea using a climate-driven spatial food web model	9
Analysis of the sustainability index for ecologically low-input integrated farming: A comprehensive assessment of environmental, economic, and social impact	9
Methods for comparing theoretical models parameterized with field data using biological criteria and Sobol analysis	9
Investigating the need to replace the conventional method of sugar beet production in lorestan province, iran based on the arguments obtained from emergy calculations	9
LoggingLab: An R package to simulate reduced-impact selective logging in tropical forests using forest inventory data	9
Mathematical validation of cleaning symbiosis between Macrobrachium lamarrei and Labeo rohita as an effective bio-control method against Argulus bengalensis	9
Information sharing promotes bacterial diversity in oligotrophic environment with low-dose X-ray radiation based on modeling and simulation of agent-based model	9
Predicting frugivore generated seed rain in different environmental contexts: a modelling approach applied to a forest specialist	8
Development of interval transient pollution distribution model and its application in the Fenghuangshan drinking water source	8
Emergy theory to quantify the sustainability of large cascade hydropower projects in the upper Yangtze	8
Using GIS-based multicriteria decision analysis to prioritize invasive plant treatment: A creative solution for a pernicious problem	8
Modeling carbonyl sulfide and carbon dioxide fluxes in a northern boreal coniferous forest using memory-based deep learning	8
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Carbon stock model of Pinus massoniana in the subtropical zone of China: An integrated method of biomass and carbon content coefficient	8
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	8
Research on the shallow landslide stability of vegetated slopes with expansive soils based on root morphology	8
Crossing paths between empirical ecologists and meta-ecology modellers to advance marine functional connectivity estimation and prediction	8
On the use of machine learning methods to improve the estimation of gross primary productivity of maize field with drip irrigation	8
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]	8
Investigating the effect of pesticides on Daphnia population dynamics by inferring structure and parameters of a stochastic model	8
Stability analysis and Hopf bifurcation of a brown planthopper–rice model under the effect of monsoon	8
The metabolic interpretation of the von Bertalanffy growth rate	8
Modeling water quality and cyanobacteria blooms in Lake Okeechobee: I. Model descriptions, seasonal cycles, and spatial patterns	8
Understanding predator-prey-competitor dynamics between Lower Missouri River Macrhybopsis and Scaphirhynchus using a population—bioenergetics model ensemble	8
Using structural equation models (SEM) to link climate change, forest composition, deer, and outdoor recreation	8
Investigating the interactions between Chinese economic growth, energy consumption and its air environmental cost during 1989–2016 and forecasting their future trends	8
An integrated analysis for estimation of survival, growth, and movement of unmarked juvenile anadromous fish	8
Fine-scale surface complexity promotes temperature extremes but reduces the spatial extent of refugia on coastal rocks	8
Competition in forest plantations: Empirical and process-based modelling in pine and eucalypt plantations	8
Combined influences of environmental enrichment and harvesting mediate rich dynamics in an intraguild predation fishery system	8
How can oak regeneration in the Leipzig Floodplain Forest be effectively supported by femel plantations? Application of a demographic forest model	8