Two events I’m involved in that may be interesting for people that work on connecting process-based vegetation models to data. Both are organized through CA 1304 PROFOUND, and fully funded by COST: There will be a training school on Bayesian calibration, forecasting and multi-model predictions of process-based vegetation models in Rencurel / Grenoble, France, 12.-16.…
I’m heading home from the annual meeting of the Ecological Society Germany, Austria and Switzerland (GFÖ) 2013 in Potsdam, which was, like every year, enjoyable and abundant with the usual suspects of the small German-speaking ecological world. The organization and the venue were great, big thanks to the local hosts around Florian Jeltsch. If you…
Biogeosciences just published a discussion paper on a project I have been working on for quite a while now, namely on likelihood approximations for stochastic forest models (see also our review on the topic of simulation-based inference in general). From the technical side, it may be interesting that we don’t use Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC),…
This week’s edition of Nature featured a comment by Drew Purves and colleagues titled “Ecosystems: Time to model all life on Earth”, in which they propose that we need a new model type, general ecosystem models (GEM), that describe the interplay of all major organism types on earth. They say that GEMs […] could capture…
Our new perspective paper on “Connecting dynamic vegetation models to data – an inverse perspective” is now available online at the Journal of Biogeography (see also this post by my coauthor James Dyke). The paper is a part of a special issue on distribution models “The ecological niche as a window to biodiversity” that will…
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