Representing the acquisition and use of energy by individuals in agent-based models of animal populations
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Abstract
2. Our proposal is that modelled animals forage as necessary to supply their energy needs for maintenance, growth and reproduction. If there is sufficient energy intake, an animal allocates the energy obtained in the order: maintenance, growth, reproduction, energy storage, until its energy stores reach an optimal level. If there is a shortfall, the priorities for maintenance and growth/reproduction remain the same until reserves fall to a critical threshold below which all are allocated to maintenance. Rates of ingestion and allocation depend on body mass and temperature. We make suggestions for how each of these processes should be modelled mathematically.
3. Mortality rates vary with body mass and temperature according to known relationships, and these can be used to obtain estimates of background mortality rate.
4. If parameter values cannot be obtained directly, then values may provisionally be obtained by parameter borrowing, pattern-oriented modelling, artificial evolution or from allometric equations.
5. The development of ABMs incorporating individual energy budgets is essential for realistic modelling of populations affected by food availability. Such ABMs are already being used to guide conservation planning of nature reserves and shell fisheries, to assess environmental impacts of building proposals including wind farms and highways and to assess the effects on nontarget organisms of chemicals for the control of agricultural pests.
Publication type | Article |
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Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
Title | Representing the acquisition and use of energy by individuals in agent-based models of animal populations |
Series title | Methods in Ecology and Evolution |
DOI | 10.1111/2041-210x.12002 |
Volume | 4 |
Issue | 2 |
Year Published | 2013 |
Language | English |
Publisher | British Ecological Society |
Contributing office(s) | Southeast Ecological Science Center |
Description | 11 p. |
Larger Work Type | Article |
Larger Work Subtype | Journal Article |
Larger Work Title | Methods in Ecology and Evolution |
First page | 151 |
Last page | 161 |
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