RangeShifter 2.0
- Process-based models are becoming increasingly used tools for understanding how species are likely to respond to environmental changes and to potential management options. RangeShifter is one such modelling platform, which has been used to address a range of questions including identifying effective reintroduction strategies, understanding patterns of range expansion and assessing population viability of species across complex landscapes. Here we introduce a new version, RangeShifter 2.0, which incorporates important new functionality. It is now possible to simulate dynamics over user-specified, temporally changing landscapes. Additionally, we integrated a new genetic module, notably introducing an explicit genetic modelling architecture, which allows for simulation of neutral and adaptive genetic processes. Furthermore, emigration, transfer and settlement traits can now all evolve, allowing for sophisticated simulation of the evolution of dispersal. We illustrate the potential application of RangeShifter 2.0's new functionality byProcess-based models are becoming increasingly used tools for understanding how species are likely to respond to environmental changes and to potential management options. RangeShifter is one such modelling platform, which has been used to address a range of questions including identifying effective reintroduction strategies, understanding patterns of range expansion and assessing population viability of species across complex landscapes. Here we introduce a new version, RangeShifter 2.0, which incorporates important new functionality. It is now possible to simulate dynamics over user-specified, temporally changing landscapes. Additionally, we integrated a new genetic module, notably introducing an explicit genetic modelling architecture, which allows for simulation of neutral and adaptive genetic processes. Furthermore, emigration, transfer and settlement traits can now all evolve, allowing for sophisticated simulation of the evolution of dispersal. We illustrate the potential application of RangeShifter 2.0's new functionality by two examples. The first illustrates the range expansion of a virtual species across a dynamically changing UK landscape. The second demonstrates how the software can be used to explore the concept of evolving connectivity in response to land-use modification, by examining how movement rules come under selection over landscapes of different structure and composition. RangeShifter 2.0 is built using object-oriented C++ providing computationally efficient simulation of complex individual-based, eco-evolutionary models. The code has been redeveloped to enable use across operating systems, including on high performance computing clusters, and the Windows graphical user interface has been enhanced. RangeShifter 2.0 will facilitate the development of in-silico assessments of how species will respond to environmental changes and to potential management options for conserving or controlling them. By making the code available open source, we hope to inspire further collaborations and extensions by the ecological community.…
Author details: | Greta BocediORCiD, Stephen C. F. Palmer, Anne-Kathleen MalchowORCiDGND, Damaris ZurellORCiDGND, Kevin Watts, Justin M. J. Travis |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.05687 |
ISSN: | 0906-7590 |
ISSN: | 1600-0587 |
Title of parent work (English): | Ecography : pattern and diversity in ecology / Nordic Ecologic Society Oikos |
Subtitle (English): | an extended and enhanced platform for modelling environmental changes |
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell |
Place of publishing: | Oxford [u.a.] |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2021/08/29 |
Publication year: | 2021 |
Release date: | 2024/09/11 |
Tag: | animal movement; connectivity; distribution modelling; dynamic; individual-based modelling; landscapes; population viability; process-based modelling |
Volume: | 44 |
Issue: | 10 |
Number of pages: | 10 |
First page: | 1453 |
Last Page: | 1462 |
Funding institution: | project PROBIS - BiodivERsA European Joint Call; Royal Society University Research FellowshipRoyal Society of London [UF160614]; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)German Research Foundation (DFG) [ZU 361/1-1] |
Organizational units: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Biochemie und Biologie |
DDC classification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 57 Biowissenschaften; Biologie / 570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Publishing method: | Open Access / Gold Open-Access |
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License (English): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung 3.0 Unported |