Tangled ecosystem models: the temptation of siren songs and silence

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Other literature type 30 Mar 2012Publisher:Editorial CSICJournal:Scientia Marina, volume 76, pages 191-194 (issn: 0214-8358, eissn: 1886-8134,

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Authors: Javier Ruiz; Sakari Kuikka;

doi: 10.3989/scimar.03575.20a

handle: 10261/55658

Tangled ecosystem models: the temptation of siren songs and silence

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Abstract

At a meeting on marine ecosystem modelling held in Barcelona in November 2010, a wide range of tools were introduced by their developers. An officer of the European Commission was invited to the meeting as a key client of these tools, and he severely criticized the tools presented as being useless. This criticism led to a strong reaction by the modellers and an interesting debate. In this paper we summarize part of this debate, focusing on one of the potential reasons why final users are not using these tools: the isomorphism between the ecosystem and its deterministic representation through mathematical equations is fragile and a new generation of maps is necessary to represent the intrinsic uncertainty of their dynamics through models.

Related Organizations

Spanish National Research Council
Spain
University of Helsinki
Finland
Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine
Ireland
Instituto de Ciencias Marinas de Andalucía
Spain
Marine Institute
Ireland

Keywords

Aproximación ecosistémica, Bayesiano, Incertidumbre, incertidumbre, Ecosystem models, SH1-691, Bayesian, bayesiano, Aquaculture. Fisheries. Angling, uncertainty, Ecosystem approach, Modelos de ecosistema, ecosystem models, Uncertainty, modelos de ecosistema, aproximación ecosistémica, bayesian, ecosystem approach

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