Individual-Based Models and Approaches in Ecology

Population Ecology from the Individual Perspective.- Individual-Based Models: Combining Testability and Generality.- From the Individual to the Population in Demographic Models.- Techniques of Individual-Based Modeling.- Which Individual-Based Approach Is Most Appropriate For a Given Problem?.- The Role of Physiologically Structured Population Models Within a General Individual-Based Modeling Perspective.- The Dynamics of a Size-Structured Intraspecific Competition Model with Density Dependent Juvenile Growth Rates.- Parallel Computers and Individual-based Models: An Overview.- From Local to Global: The Lesson of Cellular Automata.- Hierarchical and Concurrent Individual Based Modeling.- Models of Animal Populations and Communities.- Individual State Structure in Population Models.- Empirical and Theoretical Approaches to Size-Based Interactions and Recruitment Variability in Fishes.- A Vitality-Based Stochastic Model for Organism Survival.- Evaluating the Size Effects of Lampreys and Their Hosts: Application of an Individual-Based Model.- Simulating Populations Obeying Taylor s Power Law.- An Approach for Modeling Populations with Continuous Structured Models.- Biomass Conversion at Population Level.- Models of Plant Populations and Communities.- Theory and Models of Inter-Plant Competition as a Spatial Process.- Individual-Based Forest Succession Models and the Theory of Plant Competition.- Relationships Among Individual Plant Growth and the Dynamics of Populations and Ecosystems.- A Comparison of Models to Simulate the Competitive Interactions between Plants in Even-Aged Monocultures.- Modeling of Growth and Competition in Plant Monocultures.- Individual Behavior and Pollination Ecology: Implications for the Spread of Sexually Transmitted Plant Diseases.- Summary of Working Group Discussions.- Individual-Based Modeling: Summary of a Workshop.