Gardner class

Spatially Explicit Models

Power-point presentation

CAPS article in Ecological Modeling

CAPS is available from my web page: http://www.al.umces.edu/faculty/bobgardner.html

Additional reading list

• Costanza, R., F. H. Sklar, and M. L. White. 1990. Modeling coastal landscape dynamcs: Process-based dynamic spatial ecosystem simulation can examine long-term natureal changes and human impacts. Bioscience, 40(2): 91-107.
• Holmes, E. E., M. A. Lewis, J. E. Banks and R. R. Veit. 1994. Partial differential equations in ecology: spatial interactions and population dynamics. Ecology, 75: 17-29.
• Kareiva, P. M. 1989. Renewing the dialogue between theory and experiments in population ecology. In: Perspectives in Ecological Theory, J. Roughgarden, R. M. May and S. A. Levin (eds), Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ , pp 68-88.
• Levin, S. A. 1976. Population dynamic models in heterogeneous environments. Annual Reviews of Ecology and Systematics 7: 287-310.
• Ecosystems: Landscape Ecology / LTER, November 11
• Burke, I. C., T. G. F. Kittel, W. K. Lauenroth, P. Snook, C. M. Yonker and W. J. Parto. 1991. Regional analysis of the central great plains. BioScience 41: 685-69.
• Franklin, J. F. 1993. Preserving biodiversity: species, ecosystems, or landscapes. Ecological Applications, 3: 202-205.
• Kareiva, P., and U. Wennergren. 1995. Connecting landscape patterns to ecosystem and population processes. Nature 373: 299-302.
• Cole, J. J., B. L. Peierls, N. F. Caraco, and M. L. Pace. 1993. In: Humans as components of ecosystems, McDonnell, M. J., and S. T. A. Pickett (eds.). Springer-Verlag, New York.
• Turner, M.G. 1989. Landscape ecology: the effect of pattern on process. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, Volume 20, 171-179.