This year's student workshop will provide students with a comprehensive overview of existing and emerging modelling techniques for landscape ecology, as well as outlining some potential exciting new directions for combining landscape ecological models.
Landscape ecology is the meeting point between a range of social and physical disciplines, exploring the relationships between landscape pattern and processes occurring on land, freshwater and sea.
Modelling can provide a vital tool to explore these relationships between process and pattern, as it allows large 'virtual experiments' to be run repeatedly, exploring effects that would be impossible to measure empirically. A recent paper (Synes et al 20161) highlighted the significant progress that has been made over recent years at the intersection of landscape modelling and ecological modelling, and outlined exciting novel new directions that could be taken by combining different classes of landscape models and ecological models.
This two day workshop (8th - 9th May, ECCI, University of Edinburgh) will comprise a combination of presentations from expert speakers, and opportunities to test out some models in practical sessions.