生态风险评估和决策支持的机械群体模型:良好的概念模型图的重要性
Valery E Forbes1, Chiara Accolla2, Thomas Banitz3
1Department of Biological Sciences, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA.
Integrated environmental assessment and management
|December 29, 2023
概括
标准化概念模型图 (CMDs) 改善了在生态风险评估 (ERA) 中复杂的机械人口模型的沟通和接受. 这项工作提供了建议和Web应用程序,以加强CMD开发和呈现,以提供更好的决策支持.
科学领域:
- 生态生态学 生态生态学
- 生态风险评估 生态风险评估
- 环境科学 环境科学
背景情况:
- 机械人口模型在生态学和生态风险评估 (ERA) 中越来越多地使用.
- 技术的进步使得更复杂的模拟成为可能,但模型的复杂性阻碍了沟通.
- 概念模型图 (CMD) 可以帮助理解,但缺乏标准化的开发和呈现.
研究的目的:
- 在生态建模中倡导标准化概念模型图 (CMD).
- 为一致的CMD开发和呈现提供建议和示例.
- 引入一个网络应用程序,以促进CMD创建用于ERA的决策支持.
主要方法:
- 审查CMD开发和展示当前的做法.
- 为标准化CMD制定建议.
- 开发一个免费的Web应用程序 (pop-cmd.com) 用于CMD创建.
主要成果:
- 在CMD术语和内容中发现缺乏一致性.
- 提出了一个标准化CMD开发和呈现的框架.
- 推出了一个Web应用程序,以支持创建一致的CMD.
结论:
- 标准化的CMD对于良好的建模实践和ERA的有效决策支持至关重要.
- 改进的CMD一致性提高了模型的沟通,理解和接受.
- 提供的建议和网络应用程序旨在促进标准化CMD的更广泛采用.
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