Individual-based models simulate populations and communities by following individuals and
their properties. They have been used in ecology for more than four decades, with their use …

This paper reviews the current state of knowledge of the open waters of the San Francisco
Estuary. This estuary is well known for the extent to which it has been altered through loss of …

The definitive reference in its field, Ecological Risk Assessment, Second Edition details the
latest advances in science and practice. In the fourteen years since the publication of the …

Modelling populations on an individual-by-individual basis has proven to be a fruitful
approach. Many complex patterns that are observed on the population level have been …

Spatially explicit individual-based models (IBMs) use movement rules to determine when an
animal departs its current location and to determine its movement destination; these rules …

Annual publications involving the application of coupled physical–biological models for
understanding fish recruitment processes have increased over the last decade. Sixty-nine …

Many factors, including intrinsic characteristics of the fish themselves and extrinsic factors of
the biological environment, have the potential to regulate mortality rates during the early life …

Fish populations consist of non-identical individuals inhabiting heterogeneous environments
and moving about the environment in a manner that maximizes their individual fitness. No …

A growlng body of evidence suggests that surv~ val of the planktonic early life stages of
marine fish varies spatially, often in concordance with mesoscale and larger circulation …

We develop a conceptual argument thatdensity-dependent growth via reductions in
preyresources are most likely to occur in the late-larvalor juvenile stage in both marine and …