The paper, published in PNAS, demonstrates how this model can act as a "crystal ball" into the future of ecosystems—providing enough lead time to intervene before there's nothing left to save.

Species assembly in model ecosystems, II: Results of the assembly process. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2011; 269 (1): 344 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2010.10.031 ...

This means it adds nitrogen to the otherwise low-nutrient dune ecosystem, giving it unintended fertilizer. The acacia also uses more water than the native species.

For the Vegetation/Ecosystem Modelling and Analysis Project (VEMAP), we developed a model database of climate, soils and vegetation that was compatible with the requirements of three ecosystem ...

Ian G. Macintyre, Stephen V. Smith, Joseph C. Zieman Jr. The potential application of modeling techniques to sedimentological studies of modern carbonate environments is demonstrated by a suggested ...