Ecological Modelling

Article	Citations
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A protocol for implementing parameter sensitivity analyses in complex ecosystem models	80
Snow runoff modelling in the upper Indus River Basin and its implication to energy water food nexus	72
Modified framework to reflect contribution of soil storage in emergy synthesis under different agricultural practices at farm level	70
Analysis of carbon emission drivers and peak carbon forecasts for island economies	66
Real-time assessment of live forest fuel moisture content and flammability by using space-time universal kriging	63
The critical challenge of nonstationarity in ecological modelling	59
The return of the Caracal Caracal caracal: 56 Years of Population Changes in Israel	51
Estimating stomatal conductance under drought: Parameterizing a phenomenological model and evaluating roles of the energy balance equation	46
Optimising profits from timber harvest and the biodiversity conservation value in a central European beech forest using a novel bioeconomic forestry model	40
A new model formulation for host depletion in parasitoids	40
A generational randomized growth model for fall-spawning Atlantic herring: Insights from real-world data	39
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Effects of a mobile disturbance pattern on dynamic patch networks and metapopulation persistence	38
Mathematical modeling in behavior responses: The tendency-prediction based on a persistence model on real-time data	37
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Modeling collective motion for fish schooling via multi-agent reinforcement learning	36
Simulation of forest carbon fluxes by integrating remote sensing data into biome-BGC model	35
Resource objective wildfire leveraged to restore old growth forest structure while stabilizing carbon stocks in the southwestern United States	34
Calibration and validation of the AquaCrop model for production arrangements of forage cactus and grass in a semi-arid environment	34
Modelling assessment of how small-scale vertical movements of infectious sea lice larvae can affect their large-scale distribution in fjordic systems	33
Individual-based modelling of adaptive physiological traits of cyanobacteria: Responses to light history	32
Modelling the effects of copepod diel vertical migration and community structure on ocean carbon flux using an agent-based model	32
Impact of population growth and housing development on the riverine environment: Identifying environmental threat and solution in the Wanggu River, Indonesia	31

Multimedia fates and ecological risk control strategies of phthalic acid esters in a lake recharged by reclaimed water using the QWASI fugacity model	30
Radial growth models for Pedunculate Oak in the Baltics, Latvia	28
Machine-learning modeling on tree mortality and growth reduction of temperate forests with climatic and ecophysiological parameters	28
Modelling interactive effects of biological and environmental factors on fine-scale coral settlement patterns	28
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When can few-species models describe dynamics within a complex community?	27
Corrigendum to ‘The return of the Caracal (Caracal caracal): 56-years of population changes in Israel’ [Ecological Modelling 508 (2025):111197]	27
Mechanistic simulations of kelp populations in a dynamic landscape of light, temperature, and winter storms	27
Integrating functional connectivity and habitat stability into fish habitat assessment and optimizing ecological operation	26
Modelling the dynamics of soil moisture and soil water salinity in tropical saltmarshes	26
Uncertainties in future ecosystem services under land and climate scenarios: The case of erosion in the Alps	25
Building ecosystem services-based ecological networks in energy and chemical industry areas	25
Indirect effects of pine marten recovery result in benefits to native prey through suppression of an invasive species and a shared pathogen	25
Coastal generalized ecosystem model (CGEM) 1.0: Flexible model formulations for simulating complex biogeochemical processes in aquatic ecosystems	25
Functional responses in habitat selection as a management tool to evaluate agri-environment schemes for farmland birds	25
Modelling the effect of genotype (PRNP) linked to susceptibility, infection duration and prion shedding on chronic wasting disease dynamics of cervids	24
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	24
Balancing economics and ecology in ocean ecosystems: A bioeconomic predator-prey model	24
Reconsidering the Price equation: Benchmarking the analytical power of additive partitioning in ecology	24
Age structured partial differential equations model for Culex mosquito abundance	23
One century of carbon dynamics in the eastern Canadian boreal forest under various management strategies and climate change projections	23
Individual-based modeling of shelled pteropods	23
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	21
“Teaching ‘Process Ecology’ at the Undergraduate Level: A Curricular Response to a Latent Yearning for an Ecologically-Based Understanding of Transdisciplinary Realities”	21
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Comparison of several models for estimating gross primary production of drip-irrigated maize in arid regions	21
Separating acoustic signal into underlying behaviors with self-exciting point process models	21
Intelligent classification model of land resource use using deep learning in remote sensing images	21
Unfolding carbon inequality across Belt and Road Initiative countries and regions under a global trade network	21
Addition of finer scale data and uncertainty analysis increases precision of geospatial suitability model for non-native plants in the US	21
Analysis of simulated trap counts arising from correlated and biased random walks	20
A comparison of machine learning and statistical species distribution models: Quantifying overfitting supports model interpretation	19
Estimating the fundamental niche: Accounting for the uneven availability of existing climates in the calibration area	19
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	19
Long-term assessment of land-use and climate change on water scarcity in an arid basin in Iran	19
Incorporating biodiversity impacts in land use decisions	19
How sustainable development goals have transformed our world? Evolution of the ecological networks of the Italian economy	19
Less is more: Less herbicide does more when biological control is present in Pontederia crassipes	19
Modeling drought mortality and resilience of savannas and forests in tropical Asia	19
Revolutionising sustainability using a new triplet: A system dynamic model	19
Development and application of a bioenergetics growth model for multiple early life stages of an ecologically important marine fish	19
Seasonal pattern of dengue infection in Singapore: A mechanism-based modeling and prediction	19
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	19
A method for estimating biomass of age-0 fish in case of protracted spawning leading to multiple larval cohorts in the population	19
Framing settlement systems as spatial adaptive systems	19
Combating over-commercialization in ecotourism through collaborative governance: A game-theoretic modeling analysis	18
Is toxicity a curse or blessing, or both?—Searching answer from a disease-induced consumer-resource system	18
Dynamic energy budget modelling of anuran metamorphosis	18
Parameter sensitivity and transferability for simulating ET and GPP of Dryland ecosystems across a climate gradient	18
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Effects of temperature and salinity on growth of Aurelia aurita	18
Assessing between-individual variability in bioenergetics modelling: Opportunities, challenges, and potential applications	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
Emergy ecological footprint analysis of Yaghooti grape production in the Sistan region of Iran	18
Bush encroachment with climate change in protected and communal areas: A species distribution modelling approach	18
Understanding the drivers of fish variability in an end-to-end model of the Northern Humboldt Current System	17
Uncertainty in forecasting land cover land use at a watershed scale: Towards enhanced sustainable land management	17
Modeling of the spread of non-adaptive traits in a natural population due to self-compatibility	17
Species profiles support recommendations for quality filtering of opportunistic citizen science data	17
Spatial mechanistic modelling to simulate movements and contacts between wildlife and livestock in Southern Africa	16
On the evolution of dispersal strategies under the costs of acquisition of private and social information	16
Predicting the potential impact of forest fires on runoff and sediment loads using a distributed hydrological modeling approach	16
Ecological effect of seasonally changing temperature on the life cycle of Aurelia aurita	16
A Monte-Carlo based 3-D ballistics model for guiding bat carcass surveys using environmental and turbine operational data	16
Energy-systems accounting in industrial-natural systems; An energy analysis of a managed forest ecosystem including food web biomass dynamics	16
Metacommunity stability and persistence for predation turnoff in selective patches	16
An individual-based model for exploration of population and stock dynamics in marine fishes	15
Spatial-temporal evolution of carbon storage and its driving factors in the Shanxi section of the Yellow River Basin, China	15
Performance comparison of sewage treatment plants before and after their upgradation using emergy evaluation combined with economic analysis: A case from Southwest China	15
The landscape altered the interaction between vegetation and climate in the desert oasis of Hotan River Basin, Xinjiang, China	15
Combining CENTURY model and vulnerability assessment index to estimate aboveground biomass and ecological vulnerability of grassland: An analysis in Northwest Sichuan Plateau	15
Demystifying Monte Carlo methods in R: A guide from Metropolis–Hastings to Hamiltonian Monte Carlo with biological growth equation examples	15
Comparing distribution of harbour porpoise using generalized additive models and hierarchical Bayesian models with integrated nested laplace approximation	14
Identifying optimal cloud cover for enhanced forest carbon uptake: Periodic-case NEE-overshoot modelling	14
Improving species distribution models for climate change studies: ecological plausibility and performance metrics	14
Analyzing sustainable development strategies through multi-method integration in the Green Economy Model	14
A dynamic outbreak distribution model (DODM) for an irruptive folivore: The western spruce budworm	14
Integrating ecosystem services modeling and efficiencies in decision-support models conceptualization for watershed management	14
Comparing commonly used aquatic habitat modeling methods for native fish	14
Canary palms in rural areas as invasion bridges: Exploring simulated red palm weevil spread across date palm plantations	14
Informing Surveillance through the Characterization of Outbreak Potential of Chronic Wasting Disease in White-Tailed Deer	14
Moths exhibit strong memory among cooperative species of other taxonomic groups: An empirical study	14
Field-scale simulation of runoff and water quality in a paddy field: A study of novel RWQSPad model	14
Using Hidden Markov Models to develop ecosystem indicators from non-stationary time series	13
New applications of an old individual-based model for biological dynamics	13
Current bioclimatic suitability and climate change impacts on the risk of cacao moniliasis invasion in Pará	13
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
Multiscale habitat suitability modeling for a threatened raptor offers insight into ecological model transferability	13
Real world data for real world problems: Importance of appropriate spatial resolution modelling to inform decision makers in marine management	13
Understanding plankton ecosystem dynamics under realistic micro-scale variability requires modeling at least three trophic levels	13
DiaThor: R package for computing diatom metrics and biotic indices	13
Sector aggregation effect on embodied carbon emission based on city-centric global multi-region input-output (CCG-MRIO) model	13
A spatially explicit model of tree leaf litter accumulation in fire maintained longleaf pine forests of the southeastern US	13
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Modeling soil carbon accumulation in irrigated agricultural systems	12
Correlated Random Walk of tuna in arrays of Fish Aggregating Devices: A field-based model from passive acoustic tagging	12
Development of models for sustainable green mussel cultivation under climate change events	12
A quantitative application of diffusion of innovations for modeling the spread of conservation behaviors	12
Decoding information in multilayer ecological networks: The keystone species case	12
Impact of different invasion methods of invasive species on omnivorous food webs	12
Ecological modeling and parameter estimation for predator–prey dynamics in a closed habitat: A case study of Isle Royale	12
Modelling system dynamics as a socio-ecological perspective to support human-beaver interactions	12
Does climate change stimulate citizens' responses to conserving urban forest? Insights from stimulus-organism-response theory	12
Modeling the life cycle of four types of phytoplankton and their bloom mechanisms in a benthic-pelagic coupled ecosystem	12
Attractor of a neutral individual-based forest model captures spatiotemporal structure characteristics of a mature tropical forest	12
Modelling the effects of urbanization on nutrients pollution for prospective management of a tropical watershed: A case study of Skudai River watershed	12
Coefficients of association between nominal and fully ranked ordinal variables with applications to ecological network analysis	12
Preparing for and managing crown-of-thorns starfish outbreaks on reefs under threat from interacting anthropogenic stressors	12
An exploration of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) factors simulated by SCOPE for capturing GPP across vegetation types	12
The emergence of imperfect philopatry and fidelity in spatially and temporally heterogeneous environments	12
Dynamic evolution and simulation of habitat quality in arid regions: A case study of the Hexi region, China	12
Simulation of N2O emissions from greenhouse vegetable production under different management systems in North China	12
Simulating critical nutrient loadings of regime shift in the shallow plateau Lake Dianchi	12
The impact of dynamic wind flow behavior on forest fire spread using cellular automata: Application to the watershed BOUKHALEF (Morocco)	12
Impacts of land-use intensity on ecosystems stability	12
Self-healing time of population under dynamic disturbance	12
A new interval meta-goal programming for sustainable planning of agricultural water-land use nexus	12
Howard T. Odum’s contributions to evolutionary theory	12
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When does artificial intelligence replace process-based models in ecological modelling?	12
Corrigendum to ‘Modeling mixoplankton along the biogeochemical gradient of the Southern North Sea’ Ecological Modelling 458 (2021) 0304-3800/109690	11
Predicting shifts in demography of Orbicella franksi following simulated disturbance and restoration	11
Dryland vegetation pattern dynamics driven by inertial effects and secondary seed dispersal	11
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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	11
Modeling urban growth effects on carrying capacity in arid and semi-arid regions using system dynamics	11
Productivity-environment models for Scots pine plantations in Bulgaria: an interaction of anthropogenic origin peculiarities and climate change	11
Quantitative evaluation of the effects of bycatch on native species using mathematical models	11
A data-driven high spatial resolution model of biomass accumulation and crop yield: Application to a fragmented desert-oasis agroecosystem	11
Spatiotemporal changes of ecosystem services value by incorporating planning policies: A case of the Pearl River Delta, China	11

Using interaction profile to measure species uniqueness in food webs	11
An analytical solution for optimising multi-species detection surveys	11
Effect of study area extent on the potential distribution of Species: A case study with models for Raoiella indica Hirst (Acari: Tenuipalpidae)	11
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
Controls and characteristics of biomass quantization in size-structured planktonic ecosystem models	11
The application of a plant community model to evaluate adaptation strategies for alleviating climate change impacts on grassland productivity, biodiversity and forage quality	11
Modeling terrestrial net ecosystem exchange using machine learning techniques based on flux tower measurements	11
Potential thermal safety margin for plant photosynthesis derived from local temperature variability	11
A GIS-based approach for managing catch-and-release fisheries	11
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Using the ODD protocol and NetLogo to replicate agent-based models	10
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How much is enough? Optimizing beehive stocking densities to maximize the production of a pollinator-dependent crop	10
Sampling effort required for fitting spatially explicit models of species distribution dynamics	10
Transient perturbations reveal distinct strategies for reserve benefits in life history-dependent ecosystems	10
Fish survival subject to algal bloom: Resource-based growth models with algal digestion delay and detritus-nutrient recycling delay	10
Modeling Tree Recovery in Wind-Disturbed Forests with Dense Understory Species under Climate Change	10
Nonlinear impacts of climate change on dengue transmission in mainland China: Underlying mechanisms and future projection	10
Using system equalization principle to study the effects of multiple factors to the development of bee colony	10
Landscape ecology and urban spatial configuration: Exploring a methodological relationship. Application in Pelotas, Brazil	10
Landscape-scale drivers of endangered Cape Sable Seaside Sparrow (Ammospiza maritima mirabilis) presence using an ensemble modeling approach	10
Constructing time-series submerged aquatic vegetation by integrating process-based modeling and satellite images	10
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Fungal pathogen transmission dynamics in North American salamanders: Mathematical insights for disease management	10
System evolution model of human disturbances in panda habitats	10
A computational model approach to assess the effect of climate change on the growth and development of tadpoles	10
Bayesian multi-level calibration of a process-based maize phenology model	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
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Ecological flow considering hydrological season and habitat suitability for a variety of fish	10
Temporal transferability of species abundance models to study the changes of breeding bird species based on land cover changes	10
Methods for comparing theoretical models parameterized with field data using biological criteria and Sobol analysis	10
Multi-objective optimization of forest ecosystem services under uncertainty	10
Analysis of the sustainability index for ecologically low-input integrated farming: A comprehensive assessment of environmental, economic, and social impact	10
Modeling the temporal dynamics of gut microbiota from a local community perspective	10
Modeling food dependent symbiosis in Exaiptasia pallida	10
Production potential of seaweed and shellfish integrated aquaculture in Narragansett Bay (Rhode Island, U.S.) using an ecosystem model	10
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
Improving forest gross primary productivity estimation through climate and trait integration	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
Recommendations for estimating and detecting time-varying spawner-recruit dynamics in fish populations	9
Crossing paths between empirical ecologists and meta-ecology modellers to advance marine functional connectivity estimation and prediction	9
Toward a better understanding of forest spatial patterns:A generalisation of the uniform angle index	9
Modelling the spatial shifts of functional groups in the Barents Sea using a climate-driven spatial food web model	9
Algorithms going wild – A review of machine learning techniques for terrestrial ecology	9
Multi-sectoral analysis of smarter urban nitrogen metabolism: A case study of Suzhou, China	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
Evolution of the concept of ecological integrity and its study through networks	9
Computational assessment of Amazon forest plots regrowth capacity under strong spatial variability for simulating logging scenarios	9
Mathematical validation of cleaning symbiosis between Macrobrachium lamarrei and Labeo rohita as an effective bio-control method against Argulus bengalensis	9
On the use of machine learning methods to improve the estimation of gross primary productivity of maize field with drip irrigation	9
Lotka-Volterra at 100: How predator-prey modeling became a universal framework	9
Growing at the edge: Modelling sapling colonization, performance, and effective range of mountain birch (Betula pubescens ssp. tortuosa)	9
Modelling farmland dynamics in response to farmer decisions using an advanced irrigation-related agent-based model	9
Spatiotemporal evolution of county level ecological security based on an emergy ecological footprint model: The case of Dingxi, China	9
Integrating equity and justice in marine ecosystem models: An incremental but meaningful approach	9
Simulating implications of fish behavioral response for managing hypoxia in estuaries with spatial dissolved oxygen variability	9
Analytical model for pullout behavior of root system	9
Model-based experiments as epistemic evidence in paleoecology	9
LoggingLab: An R package to simulate reduced-impact selective logging in tropical forests using forest inventory data	9
A spatially-explicit stochastic model for the Gulf Coast Tick	9
Contrasting occupancy models with presence-only models: Does accounting for detection lead to better predictions?	9
Spatial structure of natural boxwood and the invasive box tree moth can promote coexistence	9
Evaluating the skill of correlative species distribution models trained with mechanistic model output	9
Analysis of a mathematical model for golden mussels infestation	9
Which rice farming system is more environmentally friendly in Khuzestan province, Iran? A study based on emergy analysis	9
Balancing act: A participatory system dynamics approach for Mar Menor’s sustainable future	9
Integration of life cycle and habitat conditions in modeling fish biomass in the floodplain of the Lower Mekong Basin	9
The influence of phytoplankton size fractions on the carbon export ratio in the surface ocean	9
Generating pseudo-absences in the ecological space improves the biological relevance of response curves in species distribution models	8
The role of squid for food web structure and community-level metabolism	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
Modelling parasite-produced marine diseases: The case of the mass mortality event of Pinna nobilis	8
Diffusivity and bias movement velocity of Cryptolestes ferrugineus (Coleoptera: Laemophloeidae) adults under different temperature and moisture differences	8
Optimization of deep learning model for coastal chlorophyll a dynamic forecast	8
Modeling water quality and cyanobacteria blooms in Lake Okeechobee: I. Model descriptions, seasonal cycles, and spatial patterns	8
Competitive superiority of N-fixing cyanobacteria when fixed N is scarce: Reconsiderations based on a model with heterocyst differentiation	8
Carbon stock model of Pinus massoniana in the subtropical zone of China: An integrated method of biomass and carbon content coefficient	8
Assessing the functional response Holling type IV for the diatoms–zooplankton interaction	8
Research on the shallow landslide stability of vegetated slopes with expansive soils based on root morphology	8
Resilience, indirect effects and cycling in ecological networks	8
Interpreting stoichiometric homeostasis and flexibility of soil microbial biomass carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus	8
Development of interval transient pollution distribution model and its application in the Fenghuangshan drinking water source	8
Fine-scale surface complexity promotes temperature extremes but reduces the spatial extent of refugia on coastal rocks	8
An integrated analysis for estimation of survival, growth, and movement of unmarked juvenile anadromous fish	8
Dynamic distribution modelling using a native invasive species, the mountain pine beetle	8
Modeling the carbon costs of plant phosphorus acquisition in Amazonian forests	8
Predicting frugivore generated seed rain in different environmental contexts: a modelling approach applied to a forest specialist	8
Investigating the interactions between Chinese economic growth, energy consumption and its air environmental cost during 1989–2016 and forecasting their future trends	8
Are maximum yields sustainable? Effect of intra-annual time-scales on MSY, stability and resilience	8
Emergy theory to quantify the sustainability of large cascade hydropower projects in the upper Yangtze	8
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
The temperature-size rule in the context of Dynamic Energy Budget theory	8