Gap models and their individual-based relatives in the assessment of the consequences of global change

Individual-based models (IBMs) of complex systems emerged in the 1960s and early 1970s, across diverse disciplines from astronomy to zoology. Ecological IBMs arose with seemingly independent origins out of the tradition of understanding the ecosystems dynamics of ecosystems from a ‘bottom-up’ accoun...

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Main Authors: Herman H Shugart, Bin Wang, Rico Fischer, Jianyong Ma, Jing Fang, Xiaodong Yan, Andreas Huth, Amanda H Armstrong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2018-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aaaacc