Computer Modeling
Ecologists develop computer models to predict what will grow in the forest if flooding or other factors change. Such models help predict the effects of water-level management on greentree reservoirs in national wildlife refuges. Models can help managers maintain wetland forests in areas undergoing rapid subsidence and saltwater intrusion from sea-level rise and are subject to recurring hurricane disturbance. Such areas include those containing coastal pine, hardwood, and mangrove systems of the Gulf of Mexico region.
Research
- Development of an Ecosystem Model of Vegetation Succession and Surface Water
Management for Mississippi River Deltaic Wetlands (Dr.
Thomas W. Doyle)
- Modeling and Detecting the Effects of Fire and Hurricane Disturbance on
Coastal Wetland Systems: Solving Problems of Scale and Hierarchy (Dr.
Thomas W. Doyle)
- Modeling Landscape Structure and Effects of Wetland Forest Management
Practices on Wildlife (Drs. Jacoby Carter and Wylie
Barrow)
- Modeling Mangrove Community and Disturbance Regimes for the South Florida
Biogeographical Area (Dr. Thomas W. Doyle)
- Modeling the Effects of Nutria (Myocastor coypus) on Wetland Loss
(Dr. Jacoby Carter and Lori
Johnson-Randall)
- Download Nutria-Marsh Biomass-Marsh Area Loss Model.
- Process Modeling of Wetland Systems, Form, and Function: An Integrated Hierarchial
Approach (Dr. Thomas W. Doyle)
- Review and Synthesis of Dynamic Simulation Models for Predicting Global
Climate Change Effects (Dr. Thomas W. Doyle)
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