Opening the black box-Development, testing and documentation of a mechanistically rich agent-based model

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 221, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 245-255

  Topping, Chris J ^a,b   Høye, Toke T ^a,b   Olesen, Carsten Riis ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

European brown hare; In silico approaches; Lepus europaeus; Modelling protocol; ODdox; Pattern oriented modelling; Simulation model

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SIMULATION; AGENT-BASED MODEL; BLACK BOXES; ECOLOGICAL MODELS; FIELD DATA; HISTORICAL DATA; IN-SILICO; INTERFERENCE COMPETITION; LITERATURE DATA; MODEL DEVELOPMENT; MODEL TESTING; POPULATION REGULATION; REAL WORLD DATA; SIMULATION MODEL; SPATIOTEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TESTING PROTOCOLS;

BIOLOGY; POPULATION STATISTICS;

SIMULATORS;

ECOSYSTEM MODELING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FECUNDITY; ISLAND; LAGOMORPH; LITERATURE REVIEW; POPULATION GROWTH; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

LEPUS CAPENSIS; LEPUS EUROPAEUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 70549083935     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2009.09.014     Document Type: Article

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