From 30th May to 3rd June, the ICM hosts the course "Modelling aquatic ecosystems With Ecopath, Ecosim and Ecospace". It is a 30-hour course (15 theoretical and 15 practical) that deals with concepts and procedures about models of aquatic ecosystems, and introduces the ecological modelling software that can be used in personal computers.
From 30th May to 3rd June, the ICM hosts the course "Modelling aquatic ecosystems With Ecopath, Ecosim and Ecospace". It is a 30-hour course (15 theoretical and 15 practical) that deals with concepts and procedures about models of aquatic ecosystems, and introduces the ecological modelling software that can be used in personal computers.
This course is taught within the range of specialization courses in our center: Barcelona Ocean. Participants will see the principles behind the software, with a temporary module (Ecosim) and a spatiotemporal module (Ecospace). They will learn how to design and set the parameters of an ecological model. The relevance of the method is being clear thanks to a growing community of users around the world, and high-impact articles that refer to it.
The course is taught by Marta Coll, Jeroen Steenbeek and Villy Christensen, the latter, father of the food-web model types. In this edition 21 participants from 16 nationalities are involved: 5 from Spain, 10 from eight other European countries, and 6 from Israel, India, South Africa, Jamaica, China and Iran.
Related paper
Marta Coll et al. (2015) “Modelling dynamic ecosystems: venturing beyond boundaries with the Ecopath approach” Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries 25, 413-424.