Advanced course
30 & 31 October 2025

The advanced course of the Ecopath with Ecosim (EwE) modeling approach will provide an overview of Ecospace, the spatial-temporal module of EwE. Special focus will be paid to the new Ecospace niche model and fisheries management. We will pay specific attention to using Ecospace for protection and  cumulative impact management.

The course will be structured between presentations and computer time, and will be taught in English.

Morning sessions will go from 9:00 to 13.00 and afternoon sessions from 13.00 to 17.00.

We will be using a new EwE text book and a new EwE user guide for the course.

Thursday - 30 October (tentative program)

Friday - 31 October (tentative program)

Suggested reading

Christensen, V., Coll, M., Steenbeek, J., Buszowski, J., Chagaris, D., Walters, C.J., (2014). Representing variable habitat quality in a spatial food web model. Ecosystems 17, 1397-1412. DOI 10.1007/s10021-014-9803-3

Coll, M., Pennino, M.G., Steenbeek, J., Sole, J., Bellido, J.M., (2019). Predicting marine species distributions: Complementarity of food-web and Bayesian hierarchical modelling approaches. Ecological Modelling 405, 86–101. DOI 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2019.05.005

de Mutsert, K., Coll, M., Steenbeek, J., Ainsworth, C., Buszowski, J., Chagaris, D., Christensen, V., Heymans, S.J.J., Lewis, K.A., Libralato, S., Oldford, G., Piroddi, C., Romagnoni, G., Serpetti, N., Spence, M.A., Walters, C., (2023). Advances in spatial‐temporal coastal and marine ecosystem modeling using Ecospace., in: Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences. Elsevier. DOI 10.1016/B978-0-323-90798-9.00035-4

Steenbeek, J., Buszowski, J., Chagaris, D., Christensen, V., Coll, M., Fulton, E.A., Katsanevakis, S., Lewis, K.A., Mazaris, A.D., Macias, D., de Mutsert, K., Oldford, G., Pennino, M.G., Piroddi, C., Romagnoni, G., Serpetti, N., Shin, Y.-J., Spence, M.A., Stelzenmüller, V., 2021. Making spatial-temporal marine ecosystem modelling better – A perspective. Environmental Modelling & Software 145, 105209. DOI 10.1016/j.envsoft.2021.105209

Steenbeek, J., Coll, M., Gurney, L., Melin, F., Hoepffner, N., Buszowski, J., Christensen, V., (2013). Bridging the gap between ecosystem modeling tools and geographic information systems: Driving a food web model with external spatial–temporal data. Ecological Modelling 263, 139-151. DOI 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2013.04.027

Steenbeek, J., Romagnoni, G., Bentley, J., Heymans, J., Serpetti, N., Gonçalves, M., Santos, C., Warmelink, H., Mayer, I., Keijser, X., Fairgrieve, R., Abspoel, L., 2020. Combining ecosystem modeling with serious gaming in support of transboundary maritime spatial planning. Ecology and Society 25. DOI 10.5751/ES-11580-250221