Ecological Modelling

2007 - 2026

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2026, volume 521, articles C

Temporal and spatial transferability in telemetry-based dynamic species distribution models: The effects of algorithms and pseudo-absence techniques

Joshua C Wilson, Philip N Trathan, Hugh J Venables, Horst Bornemann, Rochelle Constantine, Daniel P Costa, Luciano Dalla Rosa, Louise Emmerson, Ari S Friedlaender, Michael E Goebel, Simon Goldsworthy, Mark A Hindell, Mary-Anne Lea, Mônica M C Muelbert, Silvia Olmastroni, Yan Ropert-Coudert, Colin Southwell and Ryan R Reisinger

How to build Dynamic Energy Budget models: Practical guidelines for model development

Diogo F. Oliveira, Anna Sulc, Eline Le Moan, Elisa Donati, Evridiki Klagkou, María-José Lagunes, Urban Dajčman and Tjui Yeuw Tan

Operationalising the Medawar Zone to balance realism and tractability: a field-scale test using an earthworm individual-based model

Will Rust, Harriet M. Gold, Mark E Hodson, Ron Corstanje and Alice S.A. Johnston

A new model in animal movement ecology: Optimal individual foraging patterns in meandering animals

Eulogio Pardo-Igúzquiza and Peter A. Dowd

Improved estimates of relative occurrence and abundance using opportunistic surveys and presence-only observations: A zero-inflated integrated species distribution model

Matthew Gonnerman, Jennifer M. Mullinax, Jeffery D. Sullivan, Cody M. Kent and Diann J. Prosser

Grooming intensity and stigma position alter the mating network among plants

Vanessa G. Marcelo, Flávia M.D. Marquitti, Mario Vallejo-Marín and Vinícius L.G. Brito

Optimizing forest planting spacing under environmental carrying capacity: A mechanistic carbon–environment efficiency framework

Zhicheng Zhang, Dawei Pan, Dehai Zhang, Zhenyu Li, Chengxiang Liu and Yanqin Li

Dynamic energy budget modelling of anuran life-history with account for individual variability in developmental rates

Simon Hansul, Samuel González-López, Manuel E. Ortiz-Santaliestra, Jean Lou C.M. Dorne and Andreas Focks

me4soc: a multi-model ensemble interface for soil organic carbon predictions

Elisa Bruni, Aleksi Lehtonen, Shoji Hashimoto, Boris Ťupek, Nasser Bacha, Daniel Bunker, Illian Brasselet-Darracq, Dalia Fages-Gouyou, Yanis Hemeray, Christopher P.O. Reyer, Carlos A. Sierra and Bertrand Guenet

Impact of barrier lake collapse on hydrological characteristics and fish habitats: A case study in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

Yunong Qin, Qi Tang, Yuanming Wang, Kefeng Li and Ruifeng Liang

Evaluating the factors determining long-term post-landslide forest recovery using a spatially explicit forest landscape model

Wataru Hotta, Junko Morimoto, Chihiro Haga and Futoshi Nakamura

Impacts of ecological restoration on the Water-Food-Ecosystem nexus in Africa: A systematic review of mechanisms, models, and methods

Zhengyang Wang and Wenwu Zhao

Where can I collect my data? Physiologically-based models and state-observers support entomological monitoring

Ouassim Benhamouche, Luca Rossini, Nicolás Bono Rosselló, Mattia Animobono, Mario Contarini, Stefano Speranza and Emanuele Garone

Towards improved pest management of the soybean aphid

Urvashi Verma, Margaret Lewis, Jordan Lehman and Rana D. Parshad

Detecting alien species hotspots using stacked machine learning-based species distribution models: current trend and future projections under climate change

Marwa Waseem A. Halmy

Towards robust predictions of salmon lice infestation pressure in Scottish Lochs: Biophysical model parameter sensitivity testing

Meadhbh Moriarty, Thomas P. Adams, Philip A. Gillibrand, Stevie Brain, Soizic Garnier, O’Hara Murray, Rory, Tim M Szewczyk, Alexander G. Murray and Alejandro Gallego

House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) decline in large cities. Drivers to recovery based on a simulation model

Ángela Martín-Méndez and Francisco Campuzano-Bolarín

Global sensitivity analysis of a complex marine ecosystem model: Advancing the understanding of ecosystem functioning

Yansong Huang, Ghassen Halouani, Criscely Luján, Frida Ben Rais Lasram and Raphaël Girardin

Assessing safe operating tubes for managing social-ecological systems using controllability, reachability and viability concepts

Jean-Denis Mathias and John M. Anderies

Hierarchical Bayesian state-space modeling of tritrophic dynamics with cryptic life stages

Kin Ho Chan, Rob Moerkens, Stijn Bellinkx, Marlies Huysmans and Vincent Sluydts

Biomechanical modelling of dugongs (Dugong dugon) deep and shallow foraging dive

Jean-Pierre Y. Lefebvre

Allocating grassland resources to wildlife: A simulation approach to balance sheep production with guanaco (Lama guanicoe) conservation in semi-arid Patagonia

Brenda J. Hanley, Jennifer A. Grauer and Jorge E. Rabinovich

Allometric models to predict DBH from stump diameter in coppice-regenerated post-fire eucalypt plantations

Denis U.O. Austin and Eshetu Yirdaw

From rules to roles: A generative AI-driven agent-based model for land-use decisions

Clémence Vannier, Marie Dété, Dan Richards, Alan Heays, Sandra Lavorel and Hervé Quénol

Modeling foliage density and leaf mass area dynamics in Intermountain Western USA conifers

Ella M. Keefer, W. Matt Jolly, Elliott T. Conrad, Tegan P. Brown and Samuel C. Hillman

An unsupervised machine learning approach for enhancing forest structure estimation in uneven-aged stands

I.L. Lozano, F. Minunno, R. Srinet, J. Holder and A. Mäkelä

A DEB-based physiological model to predict individual performance of Mytilus galloprovincialis in the Black Sea

Q.D. Mudde, M. Grégoire and K. Soetaert

The role of connectivity in understanding grassland-shrubland regime shifts: Impacts of aridity, grazing and wind dynamics

Shubham Tiwari, Laura Turnbull and John Wainwright

Refining the STICS model to predict iceberg lettuce yields based on temperature-dependent photosynthate partitioning

Chu-Chung Chen, Dar-Yuan Lee, Shan-Li Wang and Kai-Wei Juang

Modeling the relationship between insect phenology and field monitoring data with variable sampling efficacy

Izzy L. McCabe, Diego F. Rincon and David W. Crowder

Choose, then choose again: Navigating desirability sets in social–ecological systems management

Xuan Tung Vu, Sylvie Huet and Jean-Denis Mathias

A modelling framework to establish the linkages between harmful algal blooms and sustainability of fisheries in the Bay of Quinte, Lake Ontario, Canada

Yuko Shimoda, Natalia S. Gurgacz-Palczewski, Haibin Cai, Alfred Achieng, Monir Hossain and George B. Arhonditsis

Simulating the effects of targeted fuel removal under alternate land use and climate pathways

Alex N. Neidermeier, Maik Billing, Thales A.P. West, Kirsten Thonicke and Peter H. Verburg

DM-SPM: Deep-Markov-based-surplus production model

Rintaro Hiwatashi and Toshihide Kitakado

Strong alignment between individuals and attraction to trophic resource in patchy landscapes favour group foraging in locusts nymphs

Camille Vernier, Marie-Pierre Chapuis, Jean-Pierre Rossi and Cyril Piou

Bioenergetic responses of Pinna nobilis to pathogen-induced stress

Antonios Michail, Konstantinos Tsolakos, John A. Theodorou, George Katselis and Konstadia Lika

Ecological modelling in the Indian context – an overview of progress and potential

Arnab Banerjee and Santanu Ray

The variational dynamics of sustainability: A constraint-landscape framework within DAKM

Kishore Dutta

A three-dimensional finite difference model to predict movement parameters and distribution of two insect species in stored wheat

Fuji Jian and Harshini Boopathy

Superlinear intraspecific or sublinear interspecific interactions enhance species coexistence with a tipping point effect of population scale

Geyang Luo and Zhibin Zhang

Keeping all your eggs out of one basket: Optimizing restoration strategies for endangered winter-run Chinook

F.J. Bellido-Leiva, R.A. Lusardi and Jay R. Lund

Standardizing carbon emissions accounting for coal-to-liquids: A measurable, comparable, and recognized framework with empirical validation

Yi Tao, Yiwei Xie, Qiang Wang, Gengyuan Liu, Yuyang Ye, Ruiyan Ni and Jianbing Wang

Exploring historical discontinuities in global climate scenarios: A model-based reappraisal of the shared socio-economic pathways

Arthur Lauer, Luis Llases and David Cano Ortiz

Parameter optimization of CENTURY model based on fine vegetation types improves the simulation accuracy of SOCD in Southwest China

Lu Xu, Wei Zhou, Haotian Liu, Yao Peng, Yi Zhu, Yiyang Du and Yanlei Ye

A fuzzy inference system approach for habitat suitability index modeling: A case study of Bachman’s sparrow

Cassio Auguto Ussi Monti, Casey Eugene Phillips, Joseph Peter Roise, John Paul McTague, Christopher Moorman and Rachel Cook

Parasites and forage as determinants of body condition and population size in an imperiled ungulate

Benjamin J. Padilla, Oscar Alejandro Aleuy, Petter Jacobsen, Andy Dobson, Shelly Lachish, Susan Kutz and Mathieu Pruvot

Regime-dependent eco-evolutionary emergence of predator aggregation in a spatially explicit individual‑based model

Javier Falgueras-Cano and Andrés Moya

Machine learning for modeling forest dynamics using National Forest Inventory and climate data

Dea Rieder, Maximiliano Costa, Christian Temperli, Francesco Giardina and Giacomo Vaccario

Evolution of crop models: Modeling approaches and software development

Aditya Kapoor, Sahila Beegum, David Fleisher, Dennis Timlin, Chittaranjan Ray and Vangimalla Reddy

Disturbance and landscape characteristics interactively drive dispersal strategies in continuous and fragmented metacommunities

Stav Gelber, Britta Tietjen and Felix May

Scale-dependent effects of habitat area and corridor connectivity on population viability and genetic diversity: an individual-based simulation perspective on the area–connectivity debate

Samuel A. Cushman

SAMPL: An agent-based model to evaluate spatial sampling strategies

Kiara C. Cushway, Iris R. Foxfoot, Rachel R. Rosenberg, Astrid N. Schwalb and Todd M. Swannack

Constraint-based graph optimization for marine protected area networks: A graph neural network-informed approach

Majdi Argoubi and Khaled Mili

A DEB-IBM approach on modeling population dynamics of Bactrocera oleae, under different global warming scenarios

E. Klagkou and K. Lika

Township-scale evaluation and enhancement strategies for rural ecological resilience in the Chaohu lake area, china

Zhiqiang Gan, Yaoyao Jin, Dan Li, Yunbin Zhang and Jingyuan Chen

DEB theory’s tetrahedron of life links feeding and reproduction to trophic position of species

Sebastiaan A.L.M. Kooijman

Speeding by: Modeling animal movement speed does not overcome limitations of a popular camera trap density estimator

Nathan D. Hooven, Emilia C. Breitenbach, Paul O. Jensen, Eric P. Krausz and Daniel H. Thornton

Evolutionary consequences of selective culling in a density-regulated ungulate population: an individual-based modelling approach

Keita D. Tanaka

Critical transitions in population growth: Inflection point estimation under environmental and demographic noise

Md Aktar Ul Karim, Abubakar Yusuf Merchant and Amiya Ranjan Bhowmick

Integration of expert knowledge with data-driven insights to develop an interpretable beekeeping suitability model

Guy A. Fotso Kamga, Yacine Bouroubi, Hazaël Jones and Mickaël Germain

Spatial distribution of predation risk in cohesive fish schools under different attack strategies

Junyi Qi, Masayoshi Harada, Thorkil Casse, Linh Thi Hoai Nguyen, Hoang Nguyen Huy Vu and Ton Viet Ta

Discriminative predation stabilizes the fig-fig wasp mutualism in a patch-dynamic framework

Xiao-Fen Lin, Lin Wang, Jin-Bao Liao and Rui-Wu Wang

Agent-based modelling of a nematode system provides novel insights into the evolutionary constraints and modulators of phenotypic plasticity, bet-hedging, and environmental homeostasis

Riccardo Tarantino

Two approaches are better than one: Combining structured monitoring and unstructured citizen science data to improve estimates of bird population dynamics

Thomas Duchesne, Antoine Derouaux and Jean-Yves Paquet

parasiteR: A unified framework for parasitological data analysis in R

E.O. Furlan, J. Cabrera and E. Helman

Coupling socio-economic dynamics with hydrological processes: A modelling framework for nitrogen and phosphorus pollution in watershed systems

Hongguang Zou, Huihui Wang, Yuhao Zhong, Yunsong Yang, Xinhui Liu, Xia Li, Shuhui Zhang, Tingting Xu and Zeyu Zhang

Ecological modelling on its 50th anniversary: A citation analysis of the 100 most cited papers

Georgii A. Alexandrov

Towards an operational phytoplankton bloom monitoring and forecasting system for the large deep Lake Geneva (France/Switzerland)

Frédéric Soulignac, Orlane Anneville, Jonathan Derot, Thibault Malou, Alexandre Mayer, Sayoob Vadakke-Chanat and Stéphan Jacquet

Growth revisited: revealing the conditions of sigmoidal growth and the limited scope of the logistic function

Tim Ludwig

Relationships among food web size, structural complexity and species uniqueness

Wei-chung Liu and Ferenc Jordán

On the use of stranding data in habitat suitability models: A reply to Daudt (2026)

A.C.o Meirelles, I.C. Normande, M.D.O. Alves, K.F. Choi, V.L. Carvalho, J.C.G. Borges and A.W. Trites

Parameterizing the dynamic energy budget model for wild Megalobrama terminalis: food availability as the primary constraint on population growth across thermal gradients

Yangxin Dai, Yulai Dai and Nan Xie

A mechanistic, temperature-dependent model for predicting red palm weevil (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus) infestation dynamics in date palm orchards

Yonatan Schwartz and Gal Yaacobi