Ecological Modelling

Papers
(The median citation count of Ecological Modelling is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Want to model a species niche? A step-by-step guideline on correlative ecological niche modelling116
Estimating species distributions from spatially biased citizen science data79
Spatial cross-validation is not the right way to evaluate map accuracy77
Dealing with overprediction in species distribution models: How adding distance constraints can improve model accuracy69
Challenges, tasks, and opportunities in modeling agent-based complex systems59
Projecting effects of land use change on human well-being through changes in ecosystem services54
Predicting lake surface water phosphorus dynamics using process-guided machine learning48
A model of Sustainable Development Goals: Challenges and opportunities in promoting human well-being and environmental sustainability48
A functional size-spectrum model of the global marine ecosystem that resolves zooplankton composition44
Spatiotemporal differentiation of coupling coordination degree between economic development and water environment and its influencing factors using GWR in China's province42
Modeling interactions among multiple ecosystem services. A critical review41
Improving species distribution model predictive accuracy using species abundance: Application with boosted regression trees40
A Production–Living–Ecological Space Model for Land-Use Optimisation: A case study of the core Tumen River region in China40
Water-energy nexus: The origin, development and prospect38
Temperature coefficient (Q10) and its applications in biological systems: Beyond the Arrhenius theory36
Presence-only species distribution models are sensitive to sample prevalence: Evaluating models using spatial prediction stability and accuracy metrics35
Dynamic simulation patterns and spatiotemporal analysis of land-use/land-cover changes in the Wuhan metropolitan area, China34
Long-term assessment of land-use and climate change on water scarcity in an arid basin in Iran34
Determining agricultural suitable land in peri-urban geography using GIS and Multi Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) techniques33
Ecosystem-scale nutrient cycling responses to increasing air temperatures vary with lake trophic state33
Operationalising resilience: A methodological framework for assessing urban resilience through System Dynamics Model33
Microclimc: A mechanistic model of above, below and within-canopy microclimate33
Socio-ecological determinants of multiple ecosystem services on the Mediterranean landscapes of the Ionian Islands (Greece)32
The Chesapeake Bay program modeling system: Overview and recommendations for future development29
A global-scale ecological niche model to predict SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infection rate29
Evaluation of the sustainability of four greenhouse vegetable production ecosystems based on an analysis of emergy and social characteristics”29
Rice plant disease classification using dilated convolutional neural network with global average pooling29
Simulated growth and reproduction of green turtles (Chelonia mydas) under climate change and marine heatwave scenarios28
Spatial estimation of outdoor NO2 levels in Central London using deep neural networks and a wavelet decomposition technique27
Evaluating old community renewal based on emergy analysis: A case study of Nanjing27
Marine natural capital and ecosystem services: An environmental accounting model27
Modelling the effect of accelerated forest management on long-term wildfire activity25
Agricultural land use and the sustainability of social-ecological systems25
The impact of data quality filtering of opportunistic citizen science data on species distribution model performance24
Modelling the contribution of ephemeral wetlands to landscape connectivity23
Impact of environmental variability on Pinctada margaritifera life-history traits: A full life cycle deb modeling approach22
Assessment and a review of research on surface water quality modeling22
Adaptability analysis of water pollution and advanced industrial structure in Jiangsu Province, China21
A dynamic energy budget model for small yellow croaker Larimichthys polyactis: Parameterisation and application in its main geographic distribution waters20
Facilitation and competition reduction in tree species mixtures in Central Europe: Consequences for growth modeling and forest management20
Modelling Forest Ecosystems: a crossroad between scales, techniques and applications20
An improved estimation of net primary productivity of grassland in the Qinghai-Tibet region using light use efficiency with vegetation photosynthesis model20
Sensitivity analysis using Morris: Just screening or an effective ranking method?20
Modelling the effects of energy taxes on ecological footprint transfers in China's foreign trade19
Ecological carrying capacity and sustainability assessment for coastal zones: A novel framework based on spatial scene and three-dimensional ecological footprint model19
Using species distribution models only may underestimate climate change impacts on future marine biodiversity19
The Canadian model for peatlands (CaMP): A peatland carbon model for national greenhouse gas reporting19
Modelling prey-predator interactions in Messina beachrock pools19
Suitable habitat mathematical model of common reed (Phragmites australis) in shallow lakes with coupling cellular automaton and modified logistic function19
Conducting reproducible ecosystem modeling using the open source mass balance model Rpath18
Modelling the control of Aedes albopictus mosquitoes based on sterile males release techniques in a tropical environment18
Research progress and hotspot analysis for reactive nitrogen flows in macroscopic systems based on a CiteSpace analysis18
Assessing natural capital value in marine ecosystems through an environmental accounting model: A case study in Southern Italy18
Ocean acidification and dynamic energy budget models: Parameterisation and simulations for the green-lipped mussel18
Study on turbidity prediction method of reservoirs based on long short term memory neural network18
Extending community trajectory analysis: New metrics and representation18
Environmental convergence and environmental Kuznets curve: A unified empirical framework18
Modeling air quality regulation by green infrastructure in a Mediterranean coastal urban area: The removal of PM10 in the Metropolitan City of Naples (Italy)17
Modeling the Growth of Sugar Kelp (Saccharina latissima) in Aquaculture Systems using Dynamic Energy Budget Theory17
Investigating the impact of the mycorrhizal inoculum on the resident fungal community and on plant growth17
Sensitivity of Vegetation Growth to Precipitation in a Typical Afforestation Area in the Loess Plateau: Plant-Water Coupled Modelling17
Generalized stability conditions for host–parasitoid population dynamics: Implications for biological control17
Modeling dissolved inorganic carbon considering submerged aquatic vegetation17
The coordination between maritime economies and marine carrying capacity and their spatiotemporal evolution in the cities of the bohai rim in china17
Changes in soil carbon stocks under plantation systems and natural forests in Northeast India17
Spatiotemporal changes of ecosystem services value by incorporating planning policies: A case of the Pearl River Delta, China17
A mathematical model for Xylella fastidiosa epidemics in the Mediterranean regions. Promoting good agronomic practices for their effective control.17
A spatial bayesian-network approach as a decision-making tool for ecological-risk prevention in land ecosystems17
The effect of tourism on teleconnected ecosystem services and urban sustainability: An emergy approach17
Estimating slope stability by the root reinforcement mechanism of Artemisia sacrorum on the Loess Plateau of China16
The effect of green roofs on the reduction of mortality due to heatwaves: Results from the application of a spatial microsimulation model to four European cities16
Spatial conservation planning under uncertainty using modern portfolio theory and Nash bargaining solution16
The impact of converting waste into resources on the regional economy, evidence from Poland16
Effects of swimming behaviour and oceanography on sea turtle hatchling dispersal at the intersection of two ocean current systems16
Integrated impacts of vegetation and soil type on slope stability: A case study of Kheyrud Forest, Iran16
The standard dynamic energy budget model has no plausible alternatives16
Modeling lives saved from extreme heat by urban tree cover✰16
Ecological risk assessment of heavy metal contamination of mining area soil based on land type changes: An information network environ analysis16
A temperature- and photoperiod-driven model reveals complex temporal population dynamics of the invasive box tree moth in Europe15
The MANgrove–GroundwAter feedback model (MANGA) – Describing belowground competition based on first principles15
Defaunation and changes in climate and fire frequency have synergistic effects on aboveground biomass loss in the brazilian savanna15
Insights on integrating habitat preferences in process-oriented ecological models – a case study of the southern North Sea15
Comparing maximum entropy modelling methods to inform aquaculture site selection for novel seaweed species15
Population dynamics of Varroa mite and honeybee: Effects of parasitism with age structure and seasonality15
Modelling the effectiveness of collaborative schemes for disease and pest outbreak prevention15
A new nearest-neighbour index for monitoring spatial size diversity: The hyperbolic tangent index15
Modeling soil porewater salinity in mangrove forests (Everglades, Florida, USA) impacted by hydrological restoration and a warming climate15
Modelling the trophic roles of the demersal Chondrichthyes in the Northern Ionian Sea (Central Mediterranean Sea)15
A dynamic growth model of Ulva prolifera: Application in quantifying the biomass of green tides in the Yellow Sea, China14
A scenario-based approach to tackle trade-offs between biodiversity conservation and land use pressure in Central Italy14
Dynamic optimal ration size in tilapia culture: Economic and environmental considerations14
Impacts of climate change on biological rotation of Larix olgensis plantations for timber production and carbon storage in northeast China using the 3-PGmix model14
Changes in algal bloom dynamics in a regulated large river in response to eutrophic status14
Environmental and behavioral controls on juvenile Chinook salmon migration pathways in the Columbia River estuary14
Energetics as common currency for integrating high resolution activity patterns into dynamic energy budget-individual based models14
Modelling the interactions between landscape structure and spatio-temporal dynamics of pest natural enemies: Implications for conservation biological control14
Agroecological modeling of nitrogen and carbon transfers between decomposer micro-organisms, plant symbionts, soil and atmosphere in an intercropping system14
Sustainable agriculture, food security and diet diversity. The case study of Tuscany, Italy.14
Improving confidence in complex ecosystem models: The sensitivity analysis of an Atlantis ecosystem model14
Ecosystem based multi-species management using Empirical Dynamic Programming14
A spatially explicit population model to compare management using culling and fertility control to reduce numbers of grey squirrels14
A hierarchical framework for mapping pollination ecosystem service potential at the local scale14
A curated list of R packages for ecological niche modelling14
The energetic basis of population growth in animal kingdom14
Searching for ecology in species distribution models in the Himalayas14
Integrated ecosystem impacts of climate change and eutrophication on main Baltic fishery resources14
The economics of territory selection13
Agroecological food web modelling to evaluate and design organic and conventional agricultural systems13
Integrating dynamic plant growth models and microclimates for species distribution modelling13
Farm monitoring and disease prediction by classification based on deep learning architectures in sustainable agriculture13
A box-model of carrying capacity of the Thau lagoon in the context of ecological status regulations and sustainable shellfish cultures13
Integrating uncertain prior knowledge regarding ecological preferences into multi-species distribution models: Effects of model complexity on predictive performance13
Fine-tuning niche models matters in invasion ecology. A lesson from the land planarian Obama nungara.13
Fully Convolutional Neural Network: A solution to infer animal behaviours from multi-sensor data13
Movement, models, and metabolism: Individual-based energy budget models as next-generation extensions for predicting animal movement outcomes across scales12
Quantitative food web modeling unravels the importance of the microphytobenthos-meiofauna pathway for a high trophic transfer by meiofauna in soft-bottom intertidal food webs.12
Global assessment of marine phytoplankton primary production: Integrating machine learning and environmental accounting models12
Mathematical comparison and empirical review of the Monod and Droop forms for resource-based population dynamics12
Coronavirus outbreak is a symptom of Gaia's sickness12
High spatial resolution bioclimatic variables to support ecological modelling in a Mediterranean biodiversity hotspot12
Modelling of land-use/cover change trajectories in a transboundary catchment of the Sio-Malaba-Malakisi Region in East Africa using the CLUE-s model12
Exploring trophic interactions and cascades in the Baltic Sea using a complex end-to-end ecosystem model with extensive food web integration12
A novel spatio-temporal cellular automata model coupling partitioning with CNN-LSTM to urban land change simulation12
RESTREND-based assessment of factors affecting vegetation dynamics on the Mongolian Plateau12
The use of augmented loss functions for estimating dynamic energy budget parameters12
The impact of intensive management on net ecosystem productivity and net primary productivity of a Lei bamboo forest12
Estimating the fundamental niche: Accounting for the uneven availability of existing climates in the calibration area12
An Ecopath with Ecosim model for the Pacific coast of eastern Japan: Describing the marine environment and its fisheries prior to the Great East Japan earthquake12
Socio-ecological systems modelling of coastal urban area under a changing climate – Case study for Ubatuba, Brazil11
Modeling Potential production and yield gap of potato using modelling and GIS approaches11
Using the Dynamic Energy Budget theory to evaluate the bioremediation potential of the polychaete Hediste diversicolor in an integrated multi-trophic aquaculture system11
Modelling human influences on biodiversity at a global scale–A human ecology perspective11
Sustainability assessment of agriculture production systems in Pakistan: A provincial-scale energy-based evaluation11
The hitchhiker's guide to generic ecological-economic modelling of land-use-based biodiversity conservation policies11
Changes in sessile oak (Quercus petraea) productivity under climate change by improved leaf phenology in the 3-PG model11
Assessing the sensitivity of three Alaska marine food webs to perturbations: an example of Ecosim simulations using Rpath11
Effect of feedback loops on the sustainability and resilience of human-ecosystems11
Habitat succession of the Yangtze finless porpoise in Poyang Lake under the changing hydrodynamic and feeding environment11
Embedding ecological knowledge into artificial neural network training: A marine phytoplankton primary production model case study11
Disentangling the biotic and abiotic drivers of emergent migratory behavior using individual-based models11
Critical connectivity thresholds and the role of temperature in parasite metapopulations11
Competitive superiority of N-fixing cyanobacteria when fixed N is scarce: Reconsiderations based on a model with heterocyst differentiation11
Modelling population dynamics based on experimental trials with genetically modified (RIDL) mosquitoes11
A simple modelling tool for assessing interaction with host and local infestation of sea lice from salmonid farms on wild salmonids based on processes operating at multiple scales in space and time10
A general ODE-based model to describe the physiological age structure of ectotherms: Description and application to Drosophila suzukii10
Understanding resilience of farming systems: Insights from system dynamics modelling for an arable farming system in the Netherlands10
Modeling structural mechanics of oyster reef self-organization including environmental constraints and community interactions10
Spatial E-PSR modelling for ecological sensitivity assessment for arid rangeland resilience and management10
Improving species distribution models for dominant trees in climate data-poor forests using high-resolution remote sensing10
Exploring the option space for land system futures at regional to global scales: The diagnostic agro-food, land use and greenhouse gas emission model BioBaM-GHG 2.010
High-resolution PVA along large environmental gradients to model the combined effects of climate change and land use timing: lessons from the large marsh grasshopper10
Utilizing machine learning for detecting flowering in mid-range digital repeat photography10
Performance of a process-based model for predicting robusta coffee yield at the regional scale in Vietnam10
Computer simulation modelling of the simultaneous adsorption of Cd, Cu and Cr from aqueous solutions by agricultural clay soil: A PHREEQC geochemical modelling code coupled to parameter estimation (PE10
Modeling watershed carbon dynamics as affected by land cover change and soil erosion10
Examining spatial carbon metabolism: Features, future simulation, and land-based mitigation10
Species-specific nature conservation prioritization (a combination of MaxEnt, Co$ting Nature and DINAMICA EGO modeling approaches)10
Review of application of EPIC crop growth model10
Estimating the Value of Global Ecosystem Structure and Productivity: A Geographic Information System and Emergy Based Approach10
Choice of climate data affects the performance and interpretation of species distribution models.10
Influences of traits and processes on productivity and functional composition in grasslands: A modeling study10
Combined climate and regional mosquito habitat model based on machine learning10
Effects of non-representative sampling design on multi-scale habitat models: flammulated owls in the Rocky Mountains.10
Modeling dissolved oxygen in a crab pond9
Individual-based 3D modelling of root systems in heterogeneous plant canopies at the multiannual scale. Case study with a weed dynamics model9
Mini-review of process-based food web models and their application in aquatic-terrestrial meta-ecosystems9
Reflections of two systems ecologists on modelling coupled human and natural (socio-ecological, socio-environmental) systems9
Estimating dynamics of central hardwood forests using random forests9
Integrated modelling of insect population dynamics at two temporal scales9
Multiple working hypotheses for hyperallometric reproduction in fishes under metabolic theory9
Predicting geographic distributions of fishes in remote stream networks using maximum entropy modeling and landscape characterizations9
Projections of algae, eelgrass, and zooplankton ecological interactions in the inner Salish Sea – for future climate, and altered oceanic states9
Evaluating five forest models using multi-decadal inventory data from mountain forests9
Can DEB models infer metabolic differences between intertidal and subtidal morphotypes of the Antarctic limpet Nacella concinna (Strebel, 1908)?9
The impact analysis of media attention on local environmental governance based on four-party evolutionary game9
Comparative study of two predatory mites Amblyseius swirskii Athias-Henriot and Transeius montdorensis (Schicha) by predator-prey models for improving biological control of greenhouse cucumber9
A spatially extended model to assess the role of landscape structure on the pollination service of Apis mellifera9
A dynamic energy budget model of Fenneropenaeus chinensis with applications for aquaculture and stock enhancement9
A physical-biological coupled ecosystem model for integrated aquaculture of bivalve and seaweed in sanggou bay9
Ecophysics reload—exploring applications of theoretical physics in macroecology9
The water footprint of city naturalisation. Evaluation of the water balance of city gardens9
Dynamic energy budget of endemic and critically endangered bivalve Pinna nobilis: A mechanistic model for informed conservation9
General Landscape Connectivity Model (GLCM): a new way to map whole of landscape biodiversity functional connectivity for operational planning and reporting9
Assessing errors during simulation configuration in crop models – A global case study using APSIM-Potato9
Model laboratories: A quick-start guide for design of simulation experiments for dynamic systems models9
Ecological network identification and connectivity robustness evaluation in the Yellow River Basin under a multi-scenario simulation9
Sequential Monte-Carlo algorithms for Bayesian model calibration – A review and method comparison✰9
Building shading affects the ecosystem service of urban green spaces: Carbon capture in street canyons9
AgentSeal: Agent-based model describing movement of marine central-place foragers9
Modeling terrestrial net ecosystem exchange using machine learning techniques based on flux tower measurements9
A hierarchical Bayesian approach for incorporating expert opinions into parametric survival models: A case study of female Ixodes ricinus ticks exposed to various temperature and relative humidity con8
Agent-based modelling of juvenile eel migration via selective tidal stream transport8
Quantifying the GCM-related uncertainty for climate change impact assessment of rainfed rice production in Cambodia by a combined hydrologic - rice growth model8
A process-based model to forecast risk of potato late blight in Norway (The Nærstad model): model development, sensitivity analysis and Bayesian calibration8
State- and context-dependent applications of an energetics model in free-ranging bighorn sheep8
The impact of seasonal regulation of metabolism on the life history of Antarctic krill8
Reformulation of the Distributed Delay Model to describe insect pest populations using count variables8
A less data demanding ecophysiological niche modeling approach for mammals with comparison to conventional correlative niche modeling8
Contrasting occupancy models with presence-only models: Does accounting for detection lead to better predictions?8
Integration of local knowledge and data for spatially quantifying ecosystem services in the Hoeksche Waard, the Netherlands8
Cautions in weighting individual ecological niche models in ensemble forecasting8
A new parametric measure of functional dissimilarity: Bridging the gap between the Bray-Curtis dissimilarity and the Euclidean distance8
Three-dimensional biogeochemical modeling of eutrophication in Edmonton stormwater ponds8
Potential elevation shift of oriental beech (Fagus orientalis L.) in Hyrcanian mixed forest ecoregion under future global warming8
Assessing the impacts of agricultural conservation practices on freshwater biodiversity under changing climate8
The impacts of vegetation on the soil surface freezing-thawing processes at permafrost southern edge simulated by an improved process-based ecosystem model8
Assessing the dynamics of hybridization through a matrix modelling approach8
Investigating the interactions between Chinese economic growth, energy consumption and its air environmental cost during 1989–2016 and forecasting their future trends8
Contribution of a bioenergetics model to investigate the growth and survival of European seabass in the Bay of Biscay – English Channel area8
Quantifying tradeoffs between electricity generation and fish populations via population habitat duration curves8
Sensitivity of aboveground biomass and species composition to climate change in boreal forests of Northeastern China8
Kinetics of phosphate uptake in the dinoflagellate Karenia mikimotoi in response to phosphate stress and temperature8
Factors controlling long-term carbon dioxide exchange between a Douglas-fir stand and the atmosphere identified using an artificial neural network approach8
Ability of the APSIM Next Generation Eucalyptus model to simulate complex traits across contrasting environments8
Forecasting Pacific saury (Cololabis saira) fishing grounds off Japan using a migration model driven by an ocean circulation model8
Key factors affecting discharge, soil erosion, nitrogen and phosphorus exports from agricultural polder8
DynaGraM: A process-based model to simulate multi-species plant community dynamics in managed grasslands8
Simulating the effects of aquatic avifauna on the Phosphorus dynamics of aquatic systems8
An individual-based model to assess the spatial and individual heterogeneity of Brucella melitensis transmission in Alpine ibex8
A consistent calibration across three wheat models to simulate wheat yield and phenology in China8
Construction of ecological security pattern based on ecological carrying capacity assessment 1990–2040: A case study of the Southwest Guangxi Karst - Beibu Gulf8
An agent-based model to simulate the boosted Sterile Insect Technique for fruit fly management8
Modelling the impact of climate change and tillage practices on soil CO2 emissions from dry farmland in the Loess Plateau of China8
The comparative energetics of petrels and penguins8
Quantifying the cost-effectiveness of nutrient-removal strategies for a lowland rural watershed: Insights from process-based modeling8
Performance comparison of sewage treatment plants before and after their upgradation using emergy evaluation combined with economic analysis: A case from Southwest China7
Using structural equation modeling to better understand microcystis biovolume dynamics in a mediterranean hypereutrophic reservoir7
A dynamic biomass model of emergent aquatic vegetation under different water levels and salinity7
Impacts of nitrogen addition on nitrous oxide emission: Comparison of five nitrous oxide modules or algorithms7
Estimating and comparing biodiversity with a single universal metric7
Spatial structure of natural boxwood and the invasive box tree moth can promote coexistence7
A tritrophic interaction model for an olive tree pest, the olive moth — Prays oleae (Bernard)7
Investigation of ecologically relevant wind patterns on Marion Island using Computational Fluid Dynamics and measured data7
A coupled ecohydrodynamic model to predict algal blooms in Lake Titicaca7
Modelling the effects of climate, predation, and dispersal on the poleward range expansion of black mangrove (Avicennia germinans)7
Optimization of deep learning model for coastal chlorophyll a dynamic forecast7
A comparison of machine learning and statistical species distribution models: Quantifying overfitting supports model interpretation7
An early warning sign: trophic structure changes in the oceanic Gulf of Mexico from 2011—20187
The increasing contribution of greening to the terrestrial evapotranspiration in China7
Identification and analysis of areas prone to conflict with wild boar (Sus scrofa) in the vineyards of Malayer County, western Iran7
Low breeding performance of the Steller’s sea eagle (Haliaeetus pelagicus) causes the populations to decline7
Using the standard DEB animal model for toxicokinetic-toxicodynamic analysis7
TRIPLEX-Mortality model for simulating drought-induced tree mortality in boreal forests: Model development and evaluation7
Using qualitative network models to assess the influence of mussel culture on ecosystem dynamics7
Evaluation of spatio-temporal variations in water availability using a process-based eco-hydrology model in arid and semi-arid regions of Mongolia7
Predicting future patterns, processes, and their interactions: Benchmark calibration and validation procedures for forest landscape models7
Predicting methane emissions from paddy rice soils under biochar and nitrogen addition using DNDC model7
Model-based data analysis of the effect of winter mixing on primary production in a lake under reoligotrophication7
Subnational carbon flow pattern analysis using multi-scale input-output model7
Proof-of-concept model for exploring the impacts of microplastics accumulation in the Maryland coastal bays ecosystem7
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