VERY relevant paper from 2001

I just found an extremely relevant paper form 2001 where someone has actually implemented an agent-based model of panther movements to explore the feasibility of re-introducing panthers to a location in Northern Florida.

The paper doesn't explicitly acknowledge its agent-based modelling methodology, but it definitely uses ABMs to model panthers moving around a real landscape. There are many similarities to my work here. The exact methodology does differ but is essence they have panthers looking at neighbouring cells, choosing a location and moving to that location, based on habitat, prey resource, roads and human density, whilst simultaneously interacting with other panthers in the area.

This is THE paper to reference.

And I am one very happy camper! :)

Reference:
Cramer, P.C. & Portier, K.M. (2001) Modelling Florida panther movements in response to human attributes of the landscape and ecological settings. Ecological Modelling 140: 51-80
(available from ScienceDirect, or Mendeley).