Heterarchical modelling of nutritional ecology: from individuals to communities

该项目将联合收割机结合营养理论、基于代理的建模和景观生态学方面的进展，以建立一个建模框架，从而了解单个生物体的生理和行为与它们所居住的种群、社区和生态系统之间的相互关系。由此产生的计算模型将提供一个重大的新举措，在定量生态学，并允许具体的实际问题，以解决有关农业害虫，入侵物种，保护生物学和动物生产系统。

The project will combine advances in nutritional theory, agent-based modelling and landscape ecology to produce a modelling framework with which to understand the interrelationships between the physiology and behaviour of individual organisms and the populations, communities and ecosystems in which they reside. The resulting computational model will provide a major new initiative in quantitative ecology and allow specific practical problems to be addressed in relation to agricultural pests, invasive species, conservation biology and animal production systems.