Michael John Plank

Inference and prediction for stochastic models of biological populations undergoing migration and proliferation

This paper reviews parameter inference, identifiability analysis, and model prediction for stochastic agent-based models of biological populations, with a focus on numerical optimization and automatic differentiation, and provides open-source Julia code.

On the imbalance between production and exploitation of marine fish assemblages: a case study from the Celtic Seas

The paper examines the exploitation ratios of demersal fish species in the Celtic Seas and finds no evidence that rarer species have lower exploitation ratios than common ones, suggesting current management methods are insufficient for conserving the assemblage as a whole.