(International Academy of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, 2015-12-01) Han, Xiaozhuo; Gao, Meng; Hui, Cang
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In ecology, the patterns usually refer to all kinds of nonrandom spatial and temporal structures of ecosystems
driving by multiple ecological processes. Pattern recognition is an important step to reveal the complicated
relationship between ecological patterns and processes. To review and present some advances about ecological
modeling, patterns recognition, and computer simulation, an international workshop on Mathematical &
Numerical Ecology with the theme “Pattern recognition and simulation in ecology” was held in in October
2014 in Guangzhou, China, and the International Society of Computational Ecology was the co-sponsor. Eight
peer-reviewed papers those were originally presented at this workshop covering three themes: patterns in
phylogeny, patterns in communities and ecosystems, and spatial pattern analysis are included in this special
issue.