Download Introduction to ecological modelling

I. INTRODUCTION TO
ECOLOGICAL MODELLING
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ECOLOGICAL MODELLINGTheoretical
Provides knowledge about:
- Systems
- Ecology
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ECOLOGICAL MODELLINGAnalytical
Provides knowledge about:
- Modeling procedure
- Modeling elements
- Conceptual models
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ECOLOGICAL MODELLING-
Experimental
Provides knowledge about:
- Models from data
- Models from hypotheses
- Models from existing knowledge
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ECOLOGICAL MODELLINGTheoretical - System
"Any phenomenon, either structural or functional, having at
least two separable components and some interaction
between these components may be considered a system."
Hall, Day
"The whole is more than the sum of parts."
Bertalanffy
Common to the most definitions: ” A system is a combination of
parts that interact and produce some new quality in their
interaction”
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ECOLOGICAL MODELLINGTheoretical- Ecology
• Functional definition:
“Ecology works at characterizing the patterns seen in nature,
studying the complex interactions among organisms and their
environment, and understanding the processes involved in
biological diversity.”
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ECOLOGICAL MODELLINGTheoretical- Ecology
Development of Ecology:
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level:
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Plant ecology
Animal ecology
Population ecology
Community ecology
Ecosystem ecology
• According to the
focus:
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Ecological Economics
Ecological Informatics
Ecological Engineering
Ecosystem based
management
Nature protection
Conservation biology
Restoration ecology
Landscape ecology
Ecological Modelling
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ECOLOGICAL MODELLINGTheoretical- Ecology
Organisms that compose the community are under permanent
influence of its environment and they make influence on the
environment as well.
Community and its physical environment are linked together.
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ECOLOGICAL MODELLINGTheoretical- Ecology
sir Arthur George Tansley (1871-1955)
1935: "…We can not separate (the organisms )
from their special environment with which they
form one physical system… it is the system so
formed which (provides) the basic units of
nature on the face of the earth … These
ECOSYSTEMS, as we may call them, are of the
most various kinds and sizes"
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ECOLOGICAL MODELLINGTheoretical- Ecology
Bitoic and abiotic components of ecosystem can not be
studied separately
Biotop + biocenosis = ecosystem (bio-geo-cenozis)
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ECOLOGICAL MODELLINGTheoretical- Ecology
ECOLOGICAL
MODELLING
Computer sciences +
Information technologies
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MODELLING METHODSCompartment modelling
Compartment
modelling
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MODELLING METHODSData mining
data
Data mining
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MODELLING METHODSQualitative modelling
Qualitative modelling
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