red+fox+ODD

Overview, Design concepts, and Details for the red fox (//Vulpes vulpes//) agent

=Overview=

Purpose
An agent depicting red fox behavior was developed for inclusion into the TrailsForward system in order to: The majority of the information used to inform the fox agent was obtained from Schumaker et al (2004).
 * use as a study organsim in order to develop a domain-specific language that allows for the development of agent definition in the TrailsForward system
 * determine how changes in land use affect population levels of red fox

Entities, state variables and scales
This model currently entails two entities; the red fox agents, and the landscape in which they exist. The landscape is represented by 1 acre patches wich contain forest, covertype, and development information reflecting the conditions in Vilas County, Wisconsin. A detailed description of the data model provided by the TrailsForward system can be found here.

= References =

Schumaker, N. H., Ernst, T., White, D., Baker, J., and Haggerty, P. (2004). Projecting Wildlife Responses To Alternative Future Landscapes in Oregonʼs Willamette Basin. Ecological Applications 14, 381-400. Available at: [].