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Høye, T.T.; Skov, F.; Topping, C.J.. |
Reliable assessments of how human activities affect wildlife populations are essential for effective natural resource management. Agent-based models provide a powerful tool for integration of multiple drivers of ecological systems, but communication of model results is at the same time constrained by the complexity of the model responses. Here, we systematically modify a digital version of a real landscape to produce a set of model landscapes differing in the degree of heterogeneity and test how different landscapes affect abundance and occupancy of six model animal species in four different management scenarios using an agent-based model framework (ALMaSS). ALMaSS is capable of highly detailed modelling of individuals but the outputs can be complex and... |
Tipo: Journal paper |
Palavras-chave: Education; Extension and communication Research methodology and philosophy. |
Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/19062/7/19062.pdf |