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- of community structure and dynamics from many of these models are rarely compared with the natural communities they are
- intended to represent. Here, we develop a spatially explicit individual-based model of a complex marine epibenthic community
- and test its ability to predict the dynamics and structure of the natural community on which the model is based. We studied
- a natural epibenthic community on small-scale patches of jetty wall to estimate the outcomes of pair-wise interactions among
- individuals of different species, neighbour-specific growth rates, and species-specific recruitment and mortality rates. The model
- is defined with rules acting at two spatial scales: (1) between individual cells on the spatial landscape that define the nature of
- interactions, growth and recruitment at a scale of 1 cm2, and (2) at the scale of whole colonies (blocks of contiguous cells) that
- define size-specific mortality and limitations to the maximum size of colonies for some species for scales up to 1000 cm2. The
- model is compared to the existing patches on the jetty wall and proves to be a good descriptor of the large range of possible
- communities on the jetty, and of the multivariate variances of the patches. The high variability in community structure predicted
- by the model, which is similar to that observed in the natural community, arises from observed variability in parameters of
- interaction outcomes, growth, recruitment, and mortality of each species. Thus if the processes we modelled operate similarly
- in nature, our results suggest that it is difficult to attempt to predict the precise trajectory of the community in a particular patch.
- Our results show that it is possible to develop a testable, predictive spatial model where the patch-scale community patterns of
- structure and dynamics are emergent, arising from local processes between colonies and species-specific demography." name="eprints.abstract" />
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- is defined with rules acting at two spatial scales: (1) between individual cells on the spatial landscape that define the nature of
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- <h1 class="ep_tm_pagetitle">Predicting global dynamics from local interactions: individual-based models predict complex features of marine epibenthic communities</h1>
- <p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"><span class="person_name">Dunstan, Piers K.</span> and <span class="person_name">Johnson, Craig R.</span> (2005) <xhtml:em>Predicting global dynamics from local interactions: individual-based models predict complex features of marine epibenthic communities.</xhtml:em> Ecological Modelling, 186 (2). pp. 221-233. ISSN 0304-3800</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"></p><table style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"><tr><td valign="top" style="text-align:center"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/1037/1/2005_Dunstan_%26_Johnson_Ecol_Modelling.pdf"><img alt="[img]" src="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png" border="0" class="ep_doc_icon" /></a></td><td valign="top"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/1037/1/2005_Dunstan_%26_Johnson_Ecol_Modelling.pdf"><span class="ep_document_citation">PDF</span></a> - Full text restricted - Requires a PDF viewer<br />177Kb</td><td><form method="get" accept-charset="utf-8" action="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/cgi/request_doc"><input value="1200" name="docid" accept-charset="utf-8" type="hidden" /><div class=""><input value="Request a copy" name="_action_null" class="ep_form_action_button" onclick="return EPJS_button_pushed( '_action_null' )" type="submit" /> </div></form></td></tr></table><p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block">Official URL: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2005.01.016">http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2005.01.016</a></p><div class="not_ep_block"><h2>Abstract</h2><p style="padding-bottom: 16px; text-align: left; margin: 1em auto 0em auto">Spatially explicit community models often generate a wide range of complex dynamics and behaviours, but the predictions
- of community structure and dynamics from many of these models are rarely compared with the natural communities they are
- intended to represent. Here, we develop a spatially explicit individual-based model of a complex marine epibenthic community
- and test its ability to predict the dynamics and structure of the natural community on which the model is based. We studied
- a natural epibenthic community on small-scale patches of jetty wall to estimate the outcomes of pair-wise interactions among
- individuals of different species, neighbour-specific growth rates, and species-specific recruitment and mortality rates. The model
- is defined with rules acting at two spatial scales: (1) between individual cells on the spatial landscape that define the nature of
- interactions, growth and recruitment at a scale of 1 cm2, and (2) at the scale of whole colonies (blocks of contiguous cells) that
- define size-specific mortality and limitations to the maximum size of colonies for some species for scales up to 1000 cm2. The
- model is compared to the existing patches on the jetty wall and proves to be a good descriptor of the large range of possible
- communities on the jetty, and of the multivariate variances of the patches. The high variability in community structure predicted
- by the model, which is similar to that observed in the natural community, arises from observed variability in parameters of
- interaction outcomes, growth, recruitment, and mortality of each species. Thus if the processes we modelled operate similarly
- in nature, our results suggest that it is difficult to attempt to predict the precise trajectory of the community in a particular patch.
- Our results show that it is possible to develop a testable, predictive spatial model where the patch-scale community patterns of
- structure and dynamics are emergent, arising from local processes between colonies and species-specific demography.</p></div><table style="margin-bottom: 1em" border="0" cellpadding="3" class="not_ep_block"><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Item Type:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">Article</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Keywords:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">Spatial individual-based model; Emergent dynamics; Community variability; Predictive model; Marine epibenthic</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Subjects:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/subjects/270702.html">270000 Biological Sciences > 270700 Ecology and Evolution > 270702 Marine and Estuarine Ecology (incl. Marine Ichthyology)</a></td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Collections:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">UNSPECIFIED</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">ID Code:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">1037</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Deposited By:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><span class="ep_name_citation"><span class="person_name">Professor Craig R. Johnson</span></span></td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Deposited On:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">17 May 2007</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Last Modified:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">04 Feb 2008 16:19</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">ePrint Statistics:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><a target="ePrintStats" href="/es/index.php?action=show_detail_eprint;id=1037;">View statistics for this ePrint</a></td></tr></table><p align="right">Repository Staff Only: <a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/cgi/users/home?screen=EPrint::View&eprintid=1037">item control page</a></p>
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