ReviewProceedings. Biological sciences2013
Predictive systems ecology.
Review in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.
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23 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Towards an ecosystem model of infectious disease.Nature ecology & evolution · 2021Review
- Occupancy versus colonization-extinction models for projecting population trends at different spatial scales.Ecology and evolution · 2020Article
- Foreseeing the future of mutualistic communities beyond collapse.Ecology letters · 2020Article
- Assessment of a large number of empirical plant species niche models by elicitation of knowledge from two national experts.Ecology and evolution · 2019Article
- Will natural resistance result in populations of ash trees remaining in British woodlands after a century of ash dieback disease?Royal Society open science · 2019Article
- Seasonal difference in temporal transferability of an ecological model: near-term predictions of lemming outbreak abundances.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Dimensions of biodiversity loss: Spatial mismatch in land-use impacts on species, functional and phylogenetic diversity of European bees.Diversity & distributions · 2017Article
- BioVeL: a virtual laboratory for data analysis and modelling in biodiversity science and ecology.BMC ecology · 2016Article
- Synergistic impacts of habitat loss and fragmentation on model ecosystems.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2016Article
- A comparison between data requirements and availability for calibrating predictive ecological models for lowland UK woodlands: learning new tricks from old trees.Ecology and evolution · 2016Article
- Non-random patterns in viral diversity.Nature communications · 2015Article
- The ecological forecast horizon, and examples of its uses and determinants.Ecology letters · 2015Article
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- Antagonistic interactions are sufficient to explain self-assemblage of bacterial communities in a homogeneous environment: a computational modeling approach.Frontiers in microbiology · 2015Article
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Abstract
Human societies, and their well-being, depend to a significant extent on the state of the ecosystems that surround them. These ecosystems are changing rapidly usually in response to anthropogenic changes in the environment. To determine the likely impact of environmental change on ecosystems and the best ways to manage them, it would be desirable to be able to predict their future states. We present a proposal to develop the paradigm of predictive systems ecology, explicitly to understand and predict the properties and behaviour of ecological systems. We discuss the necessary and desirable features of predictive systems ecology models. There are places where predictive systems ecology is already being practised and we summarize a range of terrestrial and marine examples. Significant challenges remain but we suggest that ecology would benefit both as a scientific discipline and increase its impact in society if it were to embrace the need to become more predictive.
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