Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction
  • A primer to modeling
  • Pattern-oriented modeling
  • Theory in individual-based ecology
  • A conceptual framework for designing individual-based models
  • Examples
  • Formulating individual-based models
  • Software for individual-based models
  • Analyzing individual-based models
  • Communicating individual-based models and research
  • Using analytical models in individual-based ecology
  • "This is the first in-depth treatment of individual-based modeling and how it can be used to understand how ecological systems work, an approach the authors call "individual-based ecology." This book will be helpful to any ecologist interested in modeling, and to any scientist interested in agent-based modeling."--BOOK JACKET.