Course
programme
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presentation)
Saturday Aug. 24
Afternoon:
c. 13- Arrival
18-19 Dinner
Evening:
Social activities
Sunday Aug. 25
Morning (Chairman:
Henrik Gislason):
7.30-8.15 Breakfast
8.30-9.30 Don DeAngelis: "Developing and testing a spatially-explicit individual-based model for a wildlife population" (27.7 mb)
9.45-10.45 Roland Lamberson: "Seeking
realistic behavior from virtual fish"
11.15-12.15 Chris Topping: "Developing ALMaSS, a
landscape-scale IBM simulations for wildlife management in Denmark"
12.30-13.30 Lunch
Afternoon:
14.00- c. 17
Chris Topping: Demonstration of
ALMaSS and using it to analyse consequences for wildlife if the landscape
undergoes changes (exercise)
17.00-18.00 Group discussions
18.00-19.00 Dinner
Evening:
19.30-21.30: Student presentations
21.30 – Social activities
Monday Aug. 26
Morning (Chairman:
Volker Grimm):
7.30-8.15 Breakfast
8.30-9.30 Gösta Nachman: "Viability
of a spadefoot toad metapopulation in a fragmented environment" (0.8
mb)
9.45-10.45 Esa Ranta: "An
individual-based model on large-scale synchronisation of life history events in
flowering plants"
11.15-12.15 Roland Lamberson: "Individual
and population-level analysis and validation of an individual-based trout
model"
12.30-13.30 Lunch
Afternoon:
14.00- c. 17
Roland Lamberson: "How
to analyze simulation models: computer experiments"
(exercise) (0.7 mb)
17.00-18.00 Group discussions
18.00-19.00 Dinner
Evening:
19-30-21.30 Student presentations
21.30 – Social activities
Tuesday Aug. 27
Morning (Chairman:
Gösta Nachman):
7.30-8.15 Breakfast
8.30-9.30 Geir Huse: "Implementing
behaviour
and life history
strategies in IBM's"
9.45-10.45 Wolf Mooij: "Population dynamics
of the Snail Kite in the Everglades"
11.15-12.15 Volker Grimm: "Towards
structurally realistic models: pattern-oriented modelling"
12.30-13.30 Lunch
Afternoon:
14.00- c. 17
Volker Grimm: "How to analyze
simulation models: computer experiments" (exercise)
17.00-18.00 Group discussions
18.00-19.00 Dinner
Evening:
19.30-21.30 Student presentations
21.30 – Social activities
Wednesday Aug. 28
Morning (Chairman:
Roland Lamberson):
7.30-8.15 Breakfast
8.30-9.30 Geir Huse: "Spatially
explicit IBM's of fish populatons"
9.45-10.45 Esa Ranta:
"Sustainable harvest of Finnish moose populations"
11.15-12.15 Wolf Mooij: "An introduction to some individual-based methods and to the excercises" (0.06 mb)
12.30-13.00 Lunch
Afternoon:
13.15-16.15 Wolf Mooij: "OSIRIS - an
individual based simulation tool" (exercise)
16.40-23.45 Excursion and party dinner
Thursday Aug. 29
Morning (Chairman:
Chris Topping):
8.00-8.45 Breakfast
9.00-10.00 Gösta Nachman and Mads C. Forchhammer:
"A spatially explicit model of red foxes
and sarcoptic mange (part 1) &
IBM meets traditional Population Ecology (part 2)"
10.15-11.15 Don DeAngelis: "A
survey of what has been learned from individual-based models" (8.5 mb)
11.30-12.45 Plenum discussion: "Individual-based population models: How
do we proceed from where we are now?"
12.45-13.00 Some concluding remarks.
13.00-14.00 Lunch
Afternoon:
14.00 – Departure