Recent advances in animal tracking and telemetry technology have allowed the collection of
location data at an ever-increasing rate and accuracy, and these advances have been …

This paper proposes a review of the development and use of multi-agent simulations (MAS)
for ecosystem management. The use of this methodology and the associated tools …

Abstract “Home range” is a standard concept in animal ecology and behavior but few people
try to understand what home ranges mean to the animals that have them and often assume …

Grazing distribution patterns of large herbivores are affected by abiotic factors such as slope
and distance to water and by biotic factors such as forage quantity and quality. Abiotic …

Landscape ecology deals with the effects of the spatial configuration of mosaics on a wide
variety of ecological phenomena. Because problems in many areas of conservation biology …

Feeding behaviour--Feedbacks from the gastrointestinal tract--Metabolites and hormones--
Central nervous system and the special senses--Learning about food; conditioned …

▪ Abstract Individual-based models (IBMs) allow the explicit inclusion of individual variation
in greater detail than do classical differential-equation and difference-equation models …

I Principles 1 1 Models of Systems 3 1. 1 Systems. Models. and Modeling.................... 3 1. 2
Uses of Scientific Models........................ 4 1. 3 Example: Island Biogeography..................... 6 1 …

Ecologists need a better understanding of how animals make decisions about moving
across landscapes. To this end, we developed computer simulations that contrast the …

Spatial models for habitat selection of marsh-breeding bird species were developed using
artificial neural networks. The habitat models included single and multiple species artificial …