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The Potential for the Use of Agent-Based Models in Ecotoxicology

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Part of the book series: Emerging Topics in Ecotoxicology ((ETEP,volume 2))

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This chapter introduces ABMs, their construction, and the pros and cons of their use. Although relatively new, agent-based models (ABMs) have great potential for use in ecotoxicological research – their primary advantage being the realistic simulations that can be constructed and particularly their explicit handling of space and time in simulations. Examples are provided of their use in ecotoxicology primarily exemplified by different implementations of the ALMaSS system. These examples presented demonstrate how multiple stressors, landscape structure, details regarding toxicology, animal behavior, and socioeconomic effects can and should be taken into account when constructing simulations for risk assessment. Like ecological systems, in ABMs the behavior at the system level is not simply the mean of the component responses, but the sum of the often nonlinear interactions between components in the system; hence this modeling approach opens the door to implementing and testing much more realistic and holistic ecotoxicological models than are currently used.

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  1. Department of Wildlife Ecology and Biodiversity, National Environmental Research Institute, University of Aarhus, Grenåvej 14, DK-8410, Rønde, Denmark

    Christopher J. Topping & Trine Dalkvist

  2. Centre for Integrated Population Ecology, Roskilde University, 260, 4000, Roskilde, Denmark

    Trine Dalkvist, Valery E. Forbes & Richard M. Sibly

  3. Department of Environmental, Social and Spatial Change, Roskilde University, 260, 4000, Roskilde, Denmark

    Valery E. Forbes

  4. Department of Ecological Modelling, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Permoserstr. 15, 04318, Leipzig, Germany

    Volker Grimm

  5. School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 6PS, UK

    Richard M. Sibly

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Topping, C.J., Dalkvist, T., Forbes, V.E., Grimm, V., Sibly, R.M. (2009). The Potential for the Use of Agent-Based Models in Ecotoxicology. In: Devillers, J. (eds) Ecotoxicology Modeling. Emerging Topics in Ecotoxicology, vol 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0197-2_8

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