In this work, we extend our previously developed compartmental SEIQRD model for sars-cov-2 in Belgium. We introduce variants of concern, vaccines, and seasonality model, as their addition has proven necessary modelling transmission dynamics during the 2020-2021 covid-19 pandemic The is geographically stratified into eleven spatial patches (provinces), a telecommunication dataset provided by Bel...

Common loons Gavia immer are a conservation concern in New England due to a variety of anthropogenic factors, yet little is known about biotic and abiotic environmental factors determining their wintering distribution and abundance in nearshore and offshore waters. The primary objective of this study was to develop a spatially explicit abundance model of wintering common loons in the maritime w...

Landscape structure results from complex interactions between geomorphology, climate, disturbance and succession. SELES is a tool for building spatially explicit simulations to model the role of disturbance in creating and maintaining landscape structure. Models built with SELES are raster-based, semi-Markov, whole landscape models (sensu Baker 1989) which use probabilistic disturbance spread. ...

Aims Phenotypic optimality models neglect genetics. However, especially when heterozygous genotypes are fittest, evolving allele, genotype and phenotype frequencies may not correspond to predicted optima. This was not previously addressed for organisms with complex life histories. Methods Therefore, we modelled the evolution of a fitness-relevant trait of clonal plants, stolon internode length....

Citation: Grüss A, Drexler MD, Ainsworth CH, Babcock EA, Tarnecki JH and Love MS (2018) Producing Distribution Maps for a Spatially-Explicit Ecosystem Model Using Large Monitoring and Environmental Databases and a Combination of Interpolation and Extrapolation. Front. Mar. Sci. 5:16. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2018.00016 Producing Distribution Maps for a Spatially-Explicit Ecosystem Model Using Large M...