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Originally Posted by jjl
I'm just getting in to food web theory for this new project. Most of the coding I will leave to a colleague of mine (ex-astrophysicist!), but I've written some pretty complex code in my time for models, but in butt-ugly monolithic FORTRAN or C.
Neo Martinez has done some great work on food webs, condensing the interaction parameters (competition coefficients) into a statistical distribution of coefficients that species choose from according to some very simple rules - comparison with real food web data shows the model fits well. So some simplifications are probably possible in the midst of this complexity.
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I translated the CEP Series from FORTRAN to Pascal so I could run it on my Mac back in the late 1980's. It seemed important when I did it.
Sounds like structural equation modeling--as I understand it (so says he, presumptuously). One of the guys I work with is big into that with prairie systems. He's loosing his hair and I think there's a causal relationship.
My interests now are more targeted on long-term habitat mapping of coastal wetland subsidence in Louisiana. Gotta draw pictures while we can.