Landscape Modeling of the Mississippi Delta

Ecological and morphological response of brackish tidal marshland to the next century of sea level rise: Westham Island, British Columbia

“…Existing numerical models that simulate how a specific marsh landscape responds to sea level change have been run approximately 20-50 yr into the future (e.g. Reyes et al, 2000;Martin et al, 2002). Our model simulations predict that important changes in behavior take place after about 2050, suggesting that predictions based on short term modeling and future field measurements may not adequately represent long-term behavior.…”

The Multiscale Integrated Model of Ecosystem Services (MIMES): Simulating the interactions of coupled human and natural systems

“…The early origins of MIMES can be found in such models as CELLS developed at Louisiana State University in the 1980s and 1990s (Sklar et al, 1985;Costanza et al, 1986Costanza et al, , 1988Martin et al, 2000Martin et al, , 2002Reyes et al, 2000). More recent ancestry of the approach hails in part to the polygon-based systems model (Boumans and Sklar, 1990), the Patuxent Landscape Model , and the Global Unified Metamodel of the BiOsphere (GUMBO; Boumans et al, 2002).…”

Potential Effects of Sea-Level Rise on Coastal Wetlands in Southeastern Louisiana

“…These models range considerably in terms of their complexity, and all have certain strengths and weaknesses. Some of these models have been applied in coastal Louisiana and other areas of the Gulf of Mexico (e.g., Blum and Roberts, 2009;Doyle et al, 2010;Martin et al, 2002;Reyes et al, 2000;Ritchie, Gawthorpe, and Hardy, 2004;Shirley and Battaglia, 2008;Smith et al, 2010;Weiss, Overpeck, and Strauss, 2011).…”