Ecosystem Model Skill Assessment. Yes We Can!

ABSTRACT:

Need to assess the skill of ecosystem models

Accelerated changes to global ecosystems call for holistic and integrated analyses of past, present and future states under various pressures to adequately understand current and projected future system states. Ecosystem models can inform management of human activities in a complex and changing environment, but are these models reliable? Ensuring that models are reliable for addressing management questions requires evaluating their skill in representing real-world processes and dynamics. Skill has been evaluated for just a limited set of some biophysical models. A range of skill assessment methods have been reviewed but skill assessment of full marine ecosystem models has not yet been attempted.

Northeast us atlantis marine ecosystem

SUBMITTER: Olsen E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4701724 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature