... implicitly defined but are the result from the interaction of other parameters in the model and the model structure [10, 28, 29]. For example, in the shrew model in the study of Wang and Grimm [26], ... habitats) influenced the recovery of neighbouring depleted areas by immigrating individuals in a model population. In principle, the selection of scenarios is a question of the protection goal and ... which extends the idea of ODD to documenting not only a model, but the entire process of formulating, implementing, parameterising, testing and using a model (the so-called ‘modelling cycle’,...