The Landscape Decisions Programme Coordination Team (PCT) have set up a working group to examine the role of mathematical modelling in informing landscape decisions. Sergei Petrovskii explains the value of the working group and details some insights from the discussions.
Helene Burningham and Simon Read have been organising a series of field meetings as part of their ‘Deben Soundings’ project. In this article, they report on the third meeting, held at Waldringfield on 10 February.
Computer models are frequently used to aid landscape decisions, but the complexity of the world around us makes it impossible to accurately account for all of the patterns and processes that might affect outcomes. Drawing on new research, Prof Simon Willcock, Prof James M. Bullock and Dr Danny A. P. Hooftman explain how combinations – or ‘ensembles’ – of models can produce more accurate and reliable information.
The Landscape Decisions Programme Coordination Team (PCT) have been running a set of writing groups to bring together researchers from across the network. These have been cross discipline working groups addressing some of the bigger picture topics the PCT identified coming out of the first whole programme level workshop in 2020. As this process draws to a close now the groups’ hard work is coming to fruition, Dr Beth Cole reflects on the process, the outcomes, and lessons learnt from leading these diverse writing groups.