SEASIM-NEAM: A Spatially-Explicit Agent-based SIMulator of North East Atlantic Mackerel population dynamics

• Published in: MethodsX
• Main Authors: Robin Boyd, Nicola Walker, Kieran Hyder, Robert Thorpe, Shovonlal Roy, Richard Sibly
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2020
• Subjects: Atlantic mackerel; Individual-based model; Bioenergetics; Spatially-explicit; Approximate bayesian computation; Science; Q; North East Atlantic; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mex.2020.101044; https://doaj.org/article/02438f7632814bdf85903de8294f2bf0

In 2018 we published a spatially-explicit individual-based model (IBM) that uses satellite-derived maps of food availability and temperature to predict Northeast Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus, NEAM) population dynamics. Since then, to address various ecological questions, we have extended the IBM to include additional processes and data. Throughout its development, technical documents have been provided in the form of e.g. supplementary information to published articles. However, we acknowledge that it would be difficult for potential users to collate information from separate supplementary documents and gain a full understanding of the current state of the IBM. Here, we provide a full technical specification of the latest version of our IBM. The technical specification is provided in the standard ODD (Overview, Design concepts and Details) format, and supplemented by a TRACE (TRAnsparent and Comprehensive model Evaludation) document. For the first time, we give our model the acronym SEASIM-NEAM: a Spatially-Explicit Agent-based SIMulator of North East Atlantic Mackerel population dynamics. This article supersedes previous documentation. Going forward we hope that this article will stimulate development of similar models. • This article collates improvements that have been made to SEASIM-NEAM over time.