[bes_comp_eco] Re: Query: paper suggestions
- From: "Watkins A." <aw4g09@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "ud8mm@xxxxxxxxxxx" <ud8mm@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "bes_comp_eco@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bes_comp_eco@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 09:09:06 +0000
Theres nothing like a bit of shameless self promotion, so I can suggest one of
my own papers, but there are also a few others of a similar nature in ecology
that use agent-based models to look at population dynamics and the effect of
landscape structure/management on wildlife populations. Some examples below:
Watkins, A., Noble, J., and Doncaster, C.P. (2011) An agent based model of
jaguar movements through conservation corridors. In: Advances in Artificial
Life, ECAL 2011: Proceedings of the Eleventh European Conference on the
Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, pp. 846-853, MIT Press.
http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/272840/1/jaguars.pdf
Parry, H.R., Evans, A.J. And Morgan, D. (2006) Aphid population response to
agricultural landscape change. A spatially-explicit, individual-based model.
Ecological Modelling, 199(4): 451-463
Robbins, M.M. And Robbins, A.M. (2004) Simulation of the population dynamics
and social structure of the Virunga mountain Gorillas. American Journal of
Primatology. 63: 201-223
Don't know if any of these will be helpful? Give me a shout if you want some
more examples….
Angela Watkins
PhD Student
BSc MRes MSB
Doctoral Training Centre for Complex Systems Simulation
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Subject: [bes_comp_eco] Re: Query: paper suggestions
Correcting myself… we have had a good query from Kevin Emerson! (apologies
Kevin)
Dear Group,
We have had a good question from Kevin Emerson, please feel free to reply
either publically or privately. I will reply myself soon:
Hello all,
I was hoping that I might be able to join this email group. I am currently
teaching an upper-division course in 'practical computing for biologists' and
am looking for good examples of how computation is applied in ecology. I am,
by training, an evolutionary geneticist using next-gen sequencing and have a
great deal of literature for the students in this field, but I would like to
diversify the papers that they read - showing that computation can facilitate
research in any subdiscipline of biology.
I am looking for recommendations for undergraduate-accessible papers that
really show how computation can be used to address fundamental questions in
ecology. In particular, papers that focus on the biology and not the
computational aspects, are best - I want them to survey the biology, not the
computational approaches.
Thank you very much for any suggestions.
Warmest,
Kevin Emerson
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Biology Department
St. Mary's College of Maryland
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