Section 2: Ecological Modeling is intended to serve as an overview of Ecological Modeling. We will present the basic notions of stochastic modeling for ecology then discuss the notion of Individual Based Modeling.

Section 3: Representation of Ecological Models presents an idea of how to create ecological models in the context of computer simulation.

Section 4: Parallel Simulation is an overview of the two major Parallel Discrete Event Simulators.

Section 5: Ecological Simulation Testbed describes the Ecological Simulation Testbed and provides working examples of completed simulations.

2.0 Ecological Models

Assumptions

We assume the reader already understands the standard methods for ecological modeling, i.e. analytic models and stochastic models.

Goals for this Section

Contents

2.1 Traditional Models

2.1.1 Analytic Equation

2.1.2 Stochastic Simulation

2.2 Individual Based Models

2.3 Tradeoffs