A Bioeconomic Simulation Approach to Multi-Species Insect Management

Management of Straddling Fish Stocks: a Bioeconomic Approach

Using economic instruments to develop effective management of invasive species: insights from a bioeconomic model.

Economic growth is recognized as an important factor associated with species invasions. Consequently, there is increasing need to develop solutions that combine economics and ecology to inform invasive species management. We developed a model combining economic, ecological, and sociological factors to assess the degree to which economic policies can be used to control invasive plants. Because i...

The importance of bioeconomic feedback in invasive species management

Invasive species can pose significant risks to society. Managing invasive risks cost-effectively would likely benefit from an integrated bioeconomic framework that accounts for the feedback links between the biological and economic systems. Modeling these feedbacks can be challenging relative to the standard bdamage functionQ approach in which the parameters from one system are added to a model...

BIOANT A Biologically Plausible Connectionist Approach to an Insect Simulation

The system BIOANT is designed to demonstrate the use of a biologically plausible artificial neural network in a system that simulates a home insect. The insect chosen for simulation was the so-called “ghost ant” (tapinoma melanocephalum), which may be found easily in Brazil and throughout the world. The species was studied and a number of features (body structure and behavior patterns) were ext...

A Landscape Approach to Invasive Species Management

Biological invasions are not only a major threat to biodiversity, they also have major impacts on local economies and agricultural production systems. Once established, the connection of local populations into metapopulation networks facilitates dispersal at landscape scales, generating spatial dynamics that can impact the outcome of pest-management actions. Much planning goes into landscape-sc...