Re: Fish dispersal modelling and GIS

[Konrad_Richter]

It seems that this page has some information on your topic of interest. I
haven´t read it through, but it seems to be in your line of interest.
Greetings,
     Konrad

http://math.humboldt.edu/~simsys/Products.html


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Hello,

Here at York University (England) we are  currently working on an
individual based model of fish larval dispersal running  under behavioural
and ecological constraints.  I am trying to figure out  how to integrate
the model to GIS and hopefully generate a model of tidal and  oceanic
current movements outside or inside the GIS as a source of environmental
information and forcing for the dispersal model.  I am very interested
if anyone may have used swarm methods or any agent-based  modelling with
fish or even plankton being affected by currents or  insects in wind maybe,
do you think swarm may be a good base for building models  of currents and
wind, with agents moving around in this mobile  environment??
I also would be interested in the code you use to handle  data between
models and data from ArcGIS grids so deploying Arc/Info or ArcView  as a
'data file manager' and display tool.  How much work exactly would you
envisage GIS doing where flow could be modelled?

Our fish will be  growing over a 1 month period, developing from a
passively dispersed propagule  into a seeing, hearing and smelling fish
with preferences to where it will  settle, and a strong swimming ability.

If anyone has any opinions  on this I look forward to hearing your reply,
also if anyone knows of any  relevant reading material I would be very
grateful for the details.

kind regards

Dave Nettleton







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