Biodiversity has become a central concept in agronomical research since the Rio de Janeiro
summit in 1992. Agricultural areas include a unique biological diversity which is the basis of …

Plant population modelling has been around since the 1970s, providing a valuable
approach to understanding plant ecology from a mechanistic standpoint. It is surprising then …

Traditional urban cellular automata (CA) model can effectively simulate infilling and edge-
expansion growth patterns. However, most of these models are incapable of simulating the …

The integration of geographic information systems (GIS) and environmental modelling has
been widely investigated for more than a decade. However, such integration has remained a …

Climate-change induced alterations in the global distribution of cool season (C3) and warm
season (C4) grasses would impact the global carbon cycle and have differing, local effects …

While cellular automata (CA) models have been increasingly used over the last decades to
simulate a wide range of spatial phenomena, recent studies have illustrated that they are …

Multiple stable states or alternative equilibria in ecological systems have been recognized
since the 1960s in the ecological literature. Very often, the shift between alternative states …

The linkages between ecology and geomorphology can be difficult to identify because of
physical complexity and the limitations of the current theoretical representations in these two …

Despite its ambiguities, the concept of resilience is of critical importance to researchers,
practitioners, and policy-makers in dealing with dynamic socio-ecological systems. In this …

Individual-based models (IBM) extend the potential of ecological models to cope with spatial
heterogeneity and complex ecological interaction networks with variable structures. This …