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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Centre for Biological Sciences University of Southampton ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Research blog<http://ecologicalComplexity.blogspot.com/> Research pages<http://cmg.soton.ac.uk/people/aw4g09/> From: Matthew Smith <Matthew.Smith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:Matthew.Smith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> Reply-To: <ud8mm@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:ud8mm@xxxxxxxxxxx>> Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 06:23:39 +0000 To: "ud8mm@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:ud8mm@xxxxxxxxxxx>" <ud8mm@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:ud8mm@xxxxxxxxxxx>>, "bes_comp_eco@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:bes_comp_eco@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>" <bes_comp_eco@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:bes_comp_eco@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> 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 ------------------ Kevin J Emerson, PhD Assistant Professor of Biology Biology Department St. Mary's College of Maryland 18952 E. Fisher Rd St. Mary's City, MD 20686-3001 kjemerson@xxxxxxxx<mailto:kjemerson@xxxxxxxx> http://faculty.smcm.edu/kjemerson Office: 240 - 895 - 2123, Shaefer Hall 231