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Atlantis: a spatially explicit end‐to‐end marine ecosystem model with dynamically integrated physics, ecology and socio‐economic modules
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posted on 2023-05-20, 08:00 authored by Asta AudzijonyteAsta Audzijonyte, Pethybridge, H, Porobic, J, Gorton, R, Kaplan, I, Elizabeth FultonElizabeth Fulton- Marine ecosystem management is increasingly expected to take into account a wide range of ecological and socio‐economic factors. Decision‐making is helped by end‐to‐end ecosystem models that allow exploration of alternative management scenarios given a complex range of interacting factors.
- We present Atlantis – a spatially structured largely deterministic end‐to‐end marine ecosystem model written in C, available for all major operating systems, based on dynamically interacting physics, biology, fisheries, management, assessment and economics submodels. A detailed installation guide and example application files are also provided.
- One of the main features of Atlantis is its modularity. At the simplest level Atlantis can have uniform forcing of oceanographic processes, a single primary producer and a consumer. At the most complex level, Atlantis can be used with a range of environmentally driven ecological responses, complex and habitat‐dependent food web, dynamic assessment, management and fishing effort driven by market forces and human behaviour. The combination chosen should be guided by the available data and the questions to be answered.
- Atlantis provides a large and customizable list of output files and summary statistics that can be analysed and plotted using a number of dedicated r packages.
- When applying the Atlantis package, the users should be aware of the caveats associated with complex models, such as parameter and structural model uncertainty and challenges interpreting interactions of multiple processes.
History
Publication title
Methods in Ecology and EvolutionVolume
10Issue
10Pagination
1814-1819ISSN
2041-210XDepartment/School
Institute for Marine and Antarctic StudiesPublisher
Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.Place of publication
United KingdomRights statement
© 2019 Commonwealth of Australia.Repository Status
- Restricted
