Ecosystems respond in various ways to disturbances. Quantifying ecological stability therefore
requires inspecting multiple stability properties, such as resistance, recovery, persistence …

Organismal movement is ubiquitous and facilitates important ecological mechanisms that
drive community and metacommunity composition and hence biodiversity. In most existing …

Understanding host–pathogen dynamics requires realistic consideration of transmission
events that, in the case of directly transmitted pathogens, result from contacts between …

Climate change and land use management practices are major drivers of biodiversity in
terrestrial ecosystems. To understand and predict resulting changes in community structures, …

Neutral landscape models (NLMs) simulate landscape patterns based on theoretical distributions
and can be used to systematically study the effect of landscape structure on ecological …

12.1 Introduction can be important, or even mandatory, to use even though they require more
effort than more aggregated models. We will then characterise the kind of data required for …

The ubiquitous use of computational work for data generation, processing, and modeling
increased the importance of digital documentation in improving research quality and impact. …

The recent advancement of agent-based modeling is characterized by higher demands on
the pa-rameterization, evaluation and documentation of these computationally expensive …

In Africa, burgeoning human populations promote agricultural expansion and the associated
demand for water. Water abstraction for agriculture from perennial rivers can be detrimental …

Throughout the last decades, the emergence of zoonotic diseases and the frequency of
disease outbreaks have increased substantially, fuelled by habitat encroachment and vectors …