| In a context of climate change, understanding the response of species to changes in the environment and the implications for their geographic distribution is paramount. Species distribution models (SDM), through the formulation of relationships between the organism and its environment, provide a tool to explore species response to different types of environmental stresses. This study presents the development and a first application of a mechanistic and generic SDM, using a multi-agent modelling platform: NetLogo. The model allows to simulate the spatialized population dynamic of a bentho-pelagic species, in response to environmental variations. The model developed is an individual-based (IBM) mechanistic model, which incorporates a DEB (Dynamic Energy... |
