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79
Citations
36365
World Ranking
859
National Ranking
61

Overview

Volker Grimm is affiliated with the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Germany. Their research largely focuses on environmental science, with a specialization in global and planetary change, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, ecological modeling, ecology, and nature and landscape conservation.

Their recent papers include:

  • The ODD Protocol for Describing Agent-Based and Other Simulation Models: A Second Update to Improve Clarity, Replication, and Structural Realism (2020), published in the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
  • Challenges, tasks, and opportunities in modeling agent-based complex systems (2021), published in Ecological Modelling
  • Movement-mediated community assembly and coexistence (2020), published in Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Towards normalizing good practice across the whole modeling cycle: its instrumentation and future research topics (2024), published in Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling
  • Collecting eco-evolutionary data in the dark: Impediments to subterranean research and how to overcome them (2021), published in Ecology and Evolution

Frequent coauthors include:

  • Thomas Banitz
  • Emilie Lindkvist
  • Uta Berger
  • Lars-Göran Johansson
  • Sonja Radosavljevic

Grimm's work is frequently published in the following venues:

  • Ecological Modelling
  • Environmental Modelling & Software
  • Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
  • Ecology and Evolution
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Complex Systems and Decision Making
  • Insect and Pesticide Research
  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Ecosystem dynamics and resilience

In addition to articles, they have published a book titled A Primer to Causal Reasoning About a Complex World (2024) with Springer Nature (Netherlands).

Best Publications

  • Animal species diversity driven by habitat heterogeneity/diversity: the importance of keystone structures

    J. Tews;U. Brose;V. Grimm;K. Tielbörger

  • A standard protocol for describing individual-based and agent-based models

    Volker Grimm;Uta Berger;Finn Bastiansen;Sigrunn Eliassen

  • The ODD protocol: A review and first update

    Volker Grimm;Uta Berger;Donald L. DeAngelis;J. Gary Polhill

  • Individual-based modeling and ecology

    Volker Grimm;Steven F. Railsback

  • Pattern-oriented modeling of agent-based complex systems: lessons from ecology

    Volker Grimm;Eloy Revilla;Uta Berger;Florian Jeltsch

  • Ten years of individual-based modelling in ecology: what have we learned and what could we learn in the future?

    Volker Grimm

  • Babel, or the ecological stability discussions: an inventory and analysis of terminology and a guide for avoiding confusion.

    Volker Grimm;Christian Wissel

  • The ODD protocol for describing agent-based and other simulation models: A second update to improve clarity, replication, and structural realism

    Volker Grimm;Steven F. Railsback;Christian E. Vincenot;Uta Berger

  • Ecological models supporting environmental decision making: a strategy for the future

    Amelie Schmolke;Pernille Thorbek;Donald L. DeAngelis;Volker Grimm

  • Pattern-oriented modelling: a ‘multi-scope’ for predictive systems ecology

    Volker Grimm;Steven F. Railsback

  • Using pattern-oriented modeling for revealing hidden information: a key for reconciling ecological theory and application

    Thorsten Wiegand;Florian Jeltsch;Ilkka Hanski;Volker Grimm

  • Individual-based models in ecology after four decades

    Donald L. DeAngelis;Volker Grimm

  • Ecological buffering mechanisms in savannas : a unifying theory of long-term tree-grass coexistence

    Florian Jeltsch;Gerhard E. Weber;Volker Grimm

  • Ecosystem oceanography for global change in fisheries

    Philippe Maurice Cury;Yunne-Jai Shin;Benjamin Planque;Joël Marcel Durant

  • The virtual ecologist approach: simulating data and observers

    Damaris Zurell;Uta Berger;Juliano S. Cabral;Florian Jeltsch

  • Do simple models lead to generality in ecology

    Matthew R. Evans;Volker Grimm;Karin Johst;Tarja Knuuttila

  • Towards better modelling and decision support: Documenting model development, testing, and analysis using TRACE

    Volker Grimm;Volker Grimm;Jacqueline Augusiak;Andreas Focks;Béatrice M. Frank

  • Merging validation and evaluation of ecological models to ‘evaludation’: A review of terminology and a practical approach

    Jacqueline Augusiak;Paul J. Van den Brink;Volker Grimm;Volker Grimm

  • Pattern-oriented modelling in population ecology

    Volker Grimm;Karin Frank;Florian Jeltsch;Roland Brandl

  • BEEHAVE: a systems model of honeybee colony dynamics and foraging to explore multifactorial causes of colony failure

    Matthias A. Becher;Matthias A. Becher;Volker Grimm;Volker Grimm;Pernille Thorbek;Juliane Horn

  • Babel, or the ecological stability discussions: an inventory and analysis

    Volker Grimm;Christian Wissel

  • ARTICLE Animal species diversity driven by habitat heterogeneity/diversity: the importance of keystone structures

    J. Tews;U. Brose;V. Grimm;M. C. Wichmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Uta Berger
Uta Berger TU Dresden
Florian Jeltsch
Florian Jeltsch University of Potsdam
Christian Wissel
Christian Wissel Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Karin Johst
Karin Johst Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Valery E. Forbes
Valery E. Forbes University of Minnesota
Karin Frank
Karin Frank Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Stephanie Kramer-Schadt
Stephanie Kramer-Schadt Leibniz Association
Simon N. Jarman
Simon N. Jarman University of Western Australia
Klaus M Meiners
Klaus M Meiners Australian Antarctic Division
Eugene J. Murphy
Eugene J. Murphy British Antarctic Survey

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