A community-based framework for aquatic ecosystem models |
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Authors: | Dennis Trolle David P. Hamilton Matthew R. Hipsey Karsten Bolding Jorn Bruggeman Wolf M. Mooij Jan H. Janse Anders Nielsen Erik Jeppesen J. Alex Elliott Vardit Makler-Pick Thomas Petzoldt Karsten Rinke Mogens R. Flindt George B. Arhonditsis Gideon Gal Rikke Bjerring Koji Tominaga Jochem’t Hoen Andrea S. Downing David M. Marques Carlos R. Fragoso Jr. Martin S?ndergaard Paul C. Hanson |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Vejls?vej 25, 8600, Silkeborg, Denmark 2. Centre for Biodiversity and Ecology Research, University of Waikato, Private Bag 3105, Hamilton, New Zealand 3. School of Earth and Environment, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, 6009, Australia 4. Bolding & Burchard ApS, Strandgyden 25, 5466, Asperup, Denmark 5. Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3AN, UK 6. Department of Aquatic Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), P.O. Box 50, 6700 AB, Wageningen, The Netherlands 7. Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL), P.O. Box 303, 3720 AH, Bilthoven, The Netherlands 8. Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University, Research Centre Foulum, Blichers All??, P.O. Box 50, 8830, Tjele, Denmark 9. SINO-DANISH Research Centre, Beijing, China 10. Algal Modelling Unit, Lake Ecosystem Group, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology Lancaster, Library Avenue, Bailrigg, Lancashire, LA1 4AP, UK 11. Oranim Academic College of Education, Kiryat Tivon, 36006, Israel 12. Faculty of Forest, Geo and Hydro Sciences, Institute of Hydrobiology, Technische Universitaet Dresden, 01062, Dresden, Germany 13. Department of Lake Research, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Br??ckstrasse 3A, 39114, Magdeburg, Germany 14. Institute of Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230, Odense M, Denmark 15. Ecological Modeling Laboratory, Department of Physical & Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada 16. Kinneret Limnological Laboratory, IOLR, P.O. Box 447, Migdal, 14950, Israel 17. Department of Biology, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1066, Blindern, 0316, Oslo, Norway 18. Norwegian Institute for Water Research, Gaustadall??en 21, 0349, Oslo, Norway 19. Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management Group, Department of Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 47, 6700 AA, Wageningen, The Netherlands 20. Instituto de Pesquisas Hidr??ulicas (IPH), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Av. Bento Gon?alves, 9500, CEP 91501-970, Porto Alegre, Brazil 21. Centre for Technology, Federal University of Alagoas, Campus A.C. Sim?es, Macei??, AL, 57072-970, Brazil 22. Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin, 680 North Park Street, Madison, WI, 53706, USA
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Abstract: | Here, we communicate a point of departure in the development of aquatic ecosystem models, namely a new community-based framework, which supports an enhanced and transparent union between the collective expertise that exists in the communities of traditional ecologists and model developers. Through a literature survey, we document the growing importance of numerical aquatic ecosystem models while also noting the difficulties, up until now, of the aquatic scientific community to make significant advances in these models during the past two decades. Through a common forum for aquatic ecosystem modellers we aim to (i) advance collaboration within the aquatic ecosystem modelling community, (ii) enable increased use of models for research, policy and ecosystem-based management, (iii) facilitate a collective framework using common (standardised) code to ensure that model development is incremental, (iv) increase the transparency of model structure, assumptions and techniques, (v) achieve a greater understanding of aquatic ecosystem functioning, (vi) increase the reliability of predictions by aquatic ecosystem models, (vii) stimulate model inter-comparisons including differing model approaches, and (viii) avoid ??re-inventing the wheel??, thus accelerating improvements to aquatic ecosystem models. We intend to achieve this as a community that fosters interactions amongst ecologists and model developers. Further, we outline scientific topics recently articulated by the scientific community, which lend themselves well to being addressed by integrative modelling approaches and serve to motivate the progress and implementation of an open source model framework. |
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