Landscape simulation modeling : a spatially explicit, dynamic approach /




Series Preface .............................................. v
Preface .................................................... vii
Contributors ................................ ............... xi

Part I Theory and Methods

1 Introduction: Spatially Explicit Landscape
Simulation Models .................................... 3
ROBERT COSTANZA AND ALEXEY VOINOV

2 Spatial Simulation Using the SME ....................... 21
THOMAS MAXWELL, ALEXEY VOINOV, AND
ROBERT COSTANZA

3 Modular Ecosystem Modeling .......................... 43
ALEXEY VOINOV, CARL FITZ, ROELOF M.J. BOUMANS,
AND ROBERT COSTANZA

4 Calibration of Large Spatial Models: A Multistage,
Multiobjective Optimization Technique ................... 77
FERDINANDO VILLA, ALEXEY VOINOV, CARL FITZ, AND
ROBERT COSTANZA




Part II Case Studies

5 Habitat Changes in the Mississippi Delta: Future
Scenarios and Alternatives ............................ 119
ENRIQUE REYES, JAY F. MARTIN, MARY L. WHITE,
JOHN W. DAY, AND G. PAUL KEMP

6 Development and Application of the Everglades
Landscape Model ................................... 143
CARL FITZ, FRED SKLAR, T. WARING, ALEXEY VOINOV,
ROBERT COSTANZA, AND THOMAS MAXWELL

7 Spatial Modeling of Eelgrass Distribution in Great Bay,
New Hampshire .................................... 173
PAMELA BEHM, ROELOF M.J. BOUMANS, AND
FREDERICK T. SHORT

8 The Patuxent Landscape Model: Integrated Modeling
of a Watershed ..................................... 197
ALEXEY VOINOV, ROBERT COSTANZA, ROELOF M.J. BOUMANS,
THOMAS MAXWELL, AND HELENA VOINOV

9 The Fort Hood Avian Simulation Model-V: A Spatially
Explicit Population Viability Model for Two
Endangered Species ................................. 233
ANN-MARIE TRAME SHAPIRO, STEVEN J. HARPER, AND
JAMES D. WESTERVELT

10 Simulating Land Use Alternatives and Their Impacts
on a Desert Tortoise Population in the
Mojave Desert, California ............................. 249
JOCELYN L. AYCRIGG, STEVEN J. HARPER, AND
JAMES D. WESTERVELT

11 A Dynamic Model of the Spatial Spread of an Infectious Disease:
The Case of Fox Rabies in Illinois ...................... 275
BRIAN DEAL, CHERYL FARELLO, MARY LANCASTER,
THOMAS KOMPARE, AND BRUCE HANNON

12 Landscape Optimization: Applications of a Spatial
Ecosystem Model ................................... 301
RALF SEPPELT AND ALEXEY VOINOV