Spatial Pattern Dynamics in Aquatic Ecosystem Modelling

This book explores modelling approaches to represent spatial pattern dynamics of aquatic populations in aquatic ecosystems. It combines models, knowledge, and data in different scales. It demonstrates that including spatially distributed inputs retrieved from Remote Sensing images a conventional physically-based Harmful Algal Bloom model can be enhanced and that Cellular Automat based models using high resolution photographs prove to be good in representing aquatic plant growth. The book also develops a synthesis modellign framework that includes biological/ecological growth and diffusive processes and a local effects in a conventional modelling framework.