An Brief Introduction to Ecological Modeling 


1. WHAT IS A MODEL?
 
The real thing... 

2. WHAT IS A SYSTEM? 

 

3. TYPES OF MODELS 

  

4. WHY MODELS?

Fig. 1. The relationship between theoretical ecology and empirical ecology (From Levin 1981).

 
5. GENERAL PROCEDURES IN ECOLOGICAL MODELING
 
 

Four Phases in Ecological Modeling


6. SOME EXAMPLES OF ECOLOGICAL MODELS