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A Web-Of-KnowledgeSM search on the phrase “Individual-based model* OR Agent-based model*” for all years up until 2010 yields approximately 1.987 million hits that reduce to 1,561 once “AND Population Ecology” had been added. The first in this latter group of publications, as graphed here, appeared in 1989 with the number of ABM publications in population ecology increasing by an average of around 7-8 publications each year to an annual rate of around 150 in 2010.
