Re: Landscape ecology

[Miles Parker]

Hi Glen,

You may be aware of this already, but the SFI/UofAriz/Brookings Artificial 
Anasazi project has something of a landscape ecology component -- in our case, 
the ecology is basically historical (not simulated), with artificial 'human' 
agents acting upon it. There's an SFI working paper, as well as a chapter in a 
volume coming out RSN from Oxford University Press. _Dynamics of Human and 
Primate Societies_, with agent modeling work including Tim Kohler's using 
Swarm. You can download a Java implementation of our Long House Valley model at 
http://www.brook.edu/es/dynamics/models/ascape (its the edu.brook.aa.LHV model.)

There were also a number of people doing agent based ecology work at the GIS 
workshop before last year's SwarmFest (if I have my meetings straight!) 
Apparantly there has been a fair amount of "pre-agent" modelling that seems to 
have a strong CA flavor in ecology for the last twenty years or so. (In fact, I 
think Lou's the one who told me about it.)  It does seem like a very natural 
fit, of course.

-Miles

Miles T. Parker
Software Engineer
The Brookings Institution  1775 Mass. Ave. NW  Washington, DC  20036
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