@article{MooijBredervelddeKleinetal.2014,
  author    = {Mooij, Wolf M. and Brederveld, Robert J. and de Klein, Jeroen J. M. and DeAngelis, Don L. and Downing, Andrea S. and Faber, Michiel and Gerla, Daan J. and Hipsey, Matthew R. and Janse, Jan H. and Janssen, Annette B. G. and Jeuken, Michel and Kooi, Bob W. and Lischke, Betty and Petzoldt, Thomas and Postma, Leo and Schep, Sebastiaan A. and Scholten, Huub and Teurlincx, Sven and Thiange, Christophe and Trolle, Dennis and van Dam, Anne A. and van Gerven, Luuk P. A. and van Nes, Egbert H. and Kuiper, Jan J.},
  title     = {Serving many at once: How a database approach can create unity in dynamical ecosystem modelling},
  series = {Environmental modelling \& software with environment data news},
  volume    = {61},
  journal   = {Environmental modelling \& software with environment data news},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  address   = {Oxford},
  issn      = {1364-8152},
  doi       = {10.1016/j.envsoft.2014.04.004},
  pages     = {266 -- 273},
  year      = {2014},
  abstract  = {Simulation modelling in ecology is a field that is becoming increasingly compartmentalized. Here we propose a Database Approach To Modelling (DATM) to create unity in dynamical ecosystem modelling with differential equations. In this approach the storage of ecological knowledge is independent of the language and platform in which the model will be run. To create an instance of the model, the information in the database is translated and augmented with the language and platform specifics. This process is automated so that a new instance can be created each time the database is updated. We describe the approach using the simple Lotka-Volterra model and the complex ecosystem model for shallow lakes PCLake, which we automatically implement in the frameworks OSIRIS, GRIND for MATLAB, ACSL, R, DUFLOW and DELWAQ. A clear advantage of working in a database is the overview it provides. The simplicity of the approach only adds to its elegance. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-SA license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/).},
  language  = {en}
}