Active economies with domestic agricultural intensification, like the US and China, are especially challenged by EIDs, as their continued growth and development facilitates new and dynamic ecological circumstances in which potential pathogens can readily emerge or evolve (Collins 2001).
Integration with SAVANNA came through the application of a habitat suitability index (HSI), which combined movement rules written for the IBM and variables modified and produced by the dynamic ecological processes run in SAVANNA.
Ecosystems are characterized by dynamic ecological processes, such as flooding and fires, but spatial models are often limited to a single measurement in time.
Multi-temporal landscape analyses, and, in particular, a restricted suite of landscape metrics, proved useful for detecting and quantitatively characterizing dynamic ecological processes.
Muetzelfeldt's interest in dynamic representation of ecological relationships (e.g., Muetzelfeldt et al.,1989) led to the development of Simile, a visual modelling environment useful for modelling ecological and agricultural systems (Muetzelfeldt and Taylor, 1997; Muetzelfeldt and Massheder, 2003).
The importance of Tibet Wild for those interested in rangelands and nomads is probably best encapsulated in this statement by Schaller, 'The conservation goal now, as before, is to manage the rangelands, livestock, and wildlife in dynamic stability, to maintain ecological wholeness.' A common theme in the book is the importance of engaging pastoral communities in conservation efforts.
Tidal creeks are the primary interface between the landscape and estuaries where freshwater from the land mixes with saline water, resulting in dynamic environments that are renowned for their ecological complexity, biological productivity and seafood production [ 23, 58].
In dynamic dryland regions, accounting for spatiotemporal landscape dynamics is essential to understanding how ecological habitat networks are affected by hydroclimatic variability at regional or sub-continental scales.
That is, interdependence consists in dynamic interpenetration.
