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Handbook of ecological modelling and informatics / editors, Jorgensen, S.E., Chon, T-S., Recknagel, F.A. - Southampton : WIT Press, c2009. - xv, 431 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)



CONTENT

Chapter 1. Introduction: Sub-disciplines of ecology and the history of ecological Modeling
Chapter 2. Overview of the model types available for ecological Modeling
Chapter 3. Ecological informatics: current scope and feature areas
Chapter 4. Model making
Chapter 5. Ecopath with ecoism: linking fisheries with ecology
Chapter 6. Surface Modeling of population distribution
Chapter 7. Individual-based models
Chapter 8. A fuzzy approach to ecological Modeling and data analysis
Chapter 9. Ecological informatics by means of natural, evolutionary and object-oriented computation
Chapter 10. Hybridisation of process-based ecosystem models with evolutionary algorithms: multi-objective optimization of process and parameter representation s of lake simulation library SALMO-OO
Chapter 11. Biogeochemical models
Chapter 12. Stochastic population dynamic models as probability networks
Chapter 13. Structurally dynamic models
Chapter 14. Ecotoxicological models
Chapter 15. Behavioral methods in ecotoxicology
Chapter 16. Cellular automata
Chapter 17. Rule-based ecological model
Chapter 18. Network calculations II: a user manual for EcoNet
Chapter 19. Mediating conceptual knowledge using qualitative reasoning
Chapter 20. Models of flow pattern and mass distribution
Chapter 21. Applications of data mining in ecological Modeling






Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN: 9781845642075

LCCN: 2008930449

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Ecology--Computer simulation.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Ecology--Mathematical models.

Dewey Class. No.: 577.0113 / ECO