ticket summary component severity type created _changetime _description _reporter 14 Network Analysis: Predator cycling index with detritus requested Network Analysis plug-in tweak assessed 2006-08-04T11:59:49-07:00 2013-08-20T13:16:31-07:00 "The Finn cycling index was not calculated in the Ecopath results - the predator cycling index is calculated, but it omits the throughput cycle including detritus and only uses predatory flows " shermanl 759 Ecoseed: Layout too cramped for lower resolution monitors. Ecospace tweak assessed 2010-07-16T13:21:12-07:00 2011-06-01T16:29:42-07:00 "Jacques.Moreau@ensat.fr Layout too small for Ecoseed output: bad for low resolution monitors. ""Ecoseed running properly (spatial optimization) but I cannot display the outputs on the screen (the screen is too small?) output appear incompletely on the lower part of the screen""" shermanl 826 Handling of time series type 2 should be reconsidered Ecosim tweak assessed 2010-11-01T10:37:08-07:00 2010-11-01T11:13:25-07:00 "There is a fundamental difference between how EwE5 and EwE6 handle forcing time series, TS of type 2. These differences have been the subject of discussion in a few cases, most notably in issues #623 and #717. * In EwE5, TS 2 exist in memory and overwrite the data of a targeted forcing function when the TS is applied. If Ecosim scenario with such an altered forcing function is saved, the targeted forcing function is altered forever. * In EwE6, TS 2 are converted to forcing functions during time series import. TS 2 thus do NOT exist in memory in EwE6. Now, it needs to be assessed if this approach is correct." jeroens 897 Have an 'undo' feature Overall GUI tweak assessed 2011-02-20T20:03:00-08:00 2011-02-20T20:03:00-08:00 Submitted at EwE25 conference. cathyb 898 Auto-backup of database Overall GUI tweak assessed 2011-02-20T20:04:40-08:00 2011-02-20T20:06:18-08:00 Submitted at EwE25 conference. Enable databases to be saved automatically at select intervals. cathyb 1123 Toggle graph scales Overall GUI tweak assessed 2012-08-16T11:51:07-07:00 2016-07-06T15:10:28-07:00 It would be useful to add the ability to toggle graph display scales to Log carlw 1145 Network Analysis Ecosim nodes should be listed under Ecosim Tools Network Analysis plug-in tweak assessed 2012-10-04T09:21:33-07:00 2013-08-20T13:40:25-07:00 "I am running some scenarios and require output from the Network Analysis. I just installed the new version however am unable to get the Ecosim > Input > Tools function, nor the Ecosim > Output > Tools function to work. Nothing happens when I click on either of them. Any idea when theses tools will be added in?" tylere 1186 Cannot leave remarks for forcing, egg prod and mediation assignments Ecosim tweak assessed 2012-11-01T06:24:40-07:00 2012-11-01T06:24:40-07:00 ...and it would be handy to be able to document specific assignments jeroens 1224 Save MTI data with Network Analysis results Network Analysis plug-in tweak assessed 2013-02-13T09:15:07-08:00 2013-08-20T14:06:07-07:00 The MTI data is currently buried within the Network Analysis plug-in and is not provided in a raw form. This is necessary if users intend to produce their own plots jeroens 1425 Standardization of the number of decimal places assumed by the software Code tweak assessed 2016-04-12T01:17:17-07:00 2016-04-12T01:17:17-07:00 "I downloaded Ecosim SS of each group via the new plug called Results extractor and noticed that in some cases, the SS shown in Ecosim plot assumes different decimal places (e.g.: for the single species group Beryx decadactylus, the value shown directly in Ecosim plot is 2,63 while the Ecosim extractor says the real value is 2,643238306. At the same time, for the group Mora moro, Ecosim plot shows an SS value of 0,0555 and the Ecosim extractor says it is 0,055480808. I know it seems insignificant but this incongruity might be a reason behind the fact we are not being able to exactly achieve the total Ecosim SS estimate manually. Additionally, in Ecospace, when I input the 1200 values that will define a group environmental response, the decimal places assumed by the program are not constant in every point. Also, in the foraging area response form - for instances, if I fill the X min with the value 0,1432 it changes the value to 0,143199995160103. A bit weird, no?" joanab 1584 flow scaling Flow diagram tweak assessed 2018-07-18T05:11:36-07:00 2018-07-18T05:11:36-07:00 "During this week I have spent quite a few hours exploring the flow diagram thoroughly and particularly how flows are being presented therein: 1. The strength of a flow in the diagram to a prey corresponds to its proportion in the diet (consumption) of the predator. 2. For each predator - though - another conversion factor for the transformation from consumption data into flow strength is apparently being applied. Therefore, flows to a prey item are not comparable between predators. 3. Outgoing flows from a prey are still predator based, i.e. maintaining the flow strength to that respective prey in the consumption of the predator. The resulting assemblage of ""out-flows"" from a prey-box gives in my opinion a totally misleading impression of the outgoing flow of matter from a prey to its predators. This is also the reason why the outgoing flow from ""herring"" to ""seals"" in our model is much larger than the flow to the ""pelagic fleet"" although the pelagic fleet is extracting 200 times the amount that the seals are consuming (per m2 and year). Summarizing, it is now clear to me that ""the bug"" in the flow strengths of the fishing fleets to their ""prey"" is not a bug but basically in line with the allover concept of the flow diagram routine except maybe for the fact that flows are even less in proportion with their real size when comparing them to other top predators such as harbour porpoises and seals in our WBS model. I am not sure how time consuming it would be to modify the flow diagram routine and in what way it should be modified if at all (I am not the only user of course and the flow diagram in my understanding forms part of the core routine of EwE)" silviao 1585 Show progress when exporting spatial temporal data Spatial temporal data framework tweak assessed 2018-07-19T07:16:15-07:00 2018-07-19T07:16:15-07:00 There is no way to know spatial temporal data export progress. The EwE status bar should show this information. jeroens 1644 Value units are wrong in Ecopath > Fleet definitions Overall GUI tweak assessed 2023-10-03T04:31:32-07:00 2023-10-03T04:31:32-07:00 The value fields are weighted by percentage, not in absolute terms jeroens 403 Add Ecosim results stacked bar plot Ecosim feature not assessed 2008-02-04T10:03:03-08:00 2010-11-01T06:45:51-07:00 "New output plot for Ecosim: display a form with a stacked bar plot with (1) volume of landings over time (2) value of landings over time " jeroens 445 Ecosim diagnostics: F-values Ecosim feature not assessed 2008-04-02T11:14:21-07:00 2010-11-01T11:57:29-07:00 "I suggest we add a spreadsheet to the Ecosim tools: Diagnostics, F-value consistency. The spreadsheet should show for each group (or exploited group rather) the F-value calculated from Ecopath (F = catch / biomass) and the corresponding value in Ecosim (where it may be an input time series, e.g., if so it has to be consistent.)  In ewe5 we show this on the Fishing rate/Group display, where I added a tiny F from Ecopath before the first time step. Hence, if there was a discrepancy it would show up right away. It was however something one would have to know to find it, and it may be better making it an explicit diagnostics." villyc 447 Primary producers as multi-stanza Core Computation feature assessed 2008-04-04T14:07:46-07:00 2010-11-01T12:00:22-07:00 "the multi-stanza groups are presently for consumers only. Would be neat for terrestrial applications if they could be used for primary producers also. Trees for instance, or Colette's sea grass for that matter. We'll need to ignore the q/b calculations, and I think that's all the change that's needed. " villyc 588 Apply mediation to effort Ecosim feature assessed 2009-03-18T15:35:01-07:00 2010-11-01T12:01:14-07:00 "We need one more option for Mediation, new subset: Apply mediation (effort). there should be spreadsheet that lists the fleets by row, and an option to use up to five mediation shapes to regulate the effort. Villy will help with the implementation, say when. We may be using this for the single player game to model effort of whale watchers. " villyc 613 Monte Carlo biomass plot output Ecosim feature not assessed 2009-05-20T10:24:16-07:00 2016-02-08T00:53:01-08:00 "Features needed for the Monte Carlo biomass plot. Once the trials have been run the biomass plot should be able to show all the runs, for selected groups, with the best fitting trial data highlighted. The user should be able to selected the combination of groups and trials. " joeb 690 Show/hide groups settings are not saved with a model Overall GUI feature assessed 2010-03-05T11:07:06-08:00 2010-11-01T11:59:53-07:00 Ecosim – show/ hide groups is not saved when a scenario is saved. stevem 844 Network Analysis export transfer efficiency in Ecosim CSV Network Analysis plug-in feature assessed 2010-11-15T20:21:01-08:00 2013-08-20T13:23:35-07:00 I would really really really really like to see all three Transfer Efficiency mean values (from PP, from Detritus, and total) included in the Network Analysis Ecosim results. Please? martac 852 Add EwE5 'merge models' feature Database / Import feature assessed 2010-12-01T01:29:31-08:00 2010-12-01T01:29:31-08:00 "In EwE 5 we had a way of combining models, basically one would open a model, do a save as. Then point to another model, and ask for them to be combined. Operationally, it just needs to add the number of groups, and place the diet compositions and other information accordingly. The name of the added groups may have to be added to, e.g., by placing the first letter from the model and a space in front of the name. From Ecosim, we should import forcing functions and mediation functions. Time series can be entered again, so no need for them. Also, the habitat areas for the groups in each model need to be modified. We need to read the area (km2) for the model description in each model, then set the habitat area: New habitat area = old habitat area x model area / (sum of model areas) " villyc 907 Add size shifted connectance plot Overall GUI feature assessed 2011-03-02T08:47:18-08:00 2011-03-02T08:47:18-08:00 The size shifted connectance plot in v5 (see attached) is not in the new version is it? Would be nice ... good way to look at the impact of fisheries vs predation sheilah 924 Add new model wizard Ecopath feature assessed 2011-03-19T12:44:32-07:00 2012-10-13T21:37:32-07:00 Add a new model wizard where users can select a spatial area interactively on a map. This same map can be used to specify a cell size when creating an Ecospace scenario villyc 990 Ecosim Plots multiple runs Ecosim feature assessed 2011-06-07T13:24:09-07:00 2011-09-04T07:01:21-07:00 When Multiple run are selected on the Run Ecosim form you could also view and selected from the multiple runs in the Ecosim Plots. joeb 1002 Add emergy calculations Network Analysis plug-in feature assessed 2011-06-14T18:54:52-07:00 2011-06-14T19:04:24-07:00 "it might be useful for my purposes to modify the program to allow the calculation of emergy flows on the pathways. If you are already able to calculate the pathway energy flows, it might not be too difficult to add in the emergy calculations. The key addition would be to get the emergy (calculated from the energy times the transformity or the emergy per unit energy of the food sources) values of the food sources (assuming they are the current fundamental inputs). The food sources themselves come from the physical energies supporting that system, which would be dynamic if put in as a time series for simulation. They could be put in as average values measured in the system or in similar systems to solve the matrix equations. This might not be practical, but take a look at the attached papers to see if you think it is feasible. If it is the code would have to be modified for this purpose or additional routines written. Of course it would be best for the person who wrote the code to do the modification, but alternatively if the code is open source someone else could write the add-on. In any case I will use EcoPath and EcoSim in there present form to start. Eventually, I will have to be able to make the emergy calculations using some platform. " dcampb01 1024 Variable time steps in Ecosim Ecosim feature assessed 2011-07-12T10:58:40-07:00 2011-07-12T10:58:40-07:00 "Currently there is IN CODE functionality to set a variable time step in Ecosim. This can only be done via a Plugin. Port this over to work from the Scientific Interface. This will cause issues with plotting and time series data that will need to be sorted out." joeb 1058 Add price to Ecosim plots Ecosim feature assessed 2011-11-18T13:46:19-08:00 2012-10-19T09:14:28-07:00 A small, no-rush thing for the ecosim group plots: add a plot with price (off-vessel price). With price elasticity the price can change, and this is an interesting plot to add. But no rush villyc 1076 Add means to manually add a plug-in that is not recognized Overall Plugins feature assessed 2012-01-14T09:18:36-08:00 2013-08-20T13:08:31-07:00 In some cases the EwE engine may not recognize a dll as a plug-in. It would be really if users can manually identify, update and integrate such a file in EwE jeroens 1088 Add ability to enter absolute Ecopath values (not corrected per area) Overall GUI feature assessed 2012-02-29T16:05:00-08:00 2012-02-29T16:05:00-08:00 It would be neat to have the option to enter values as absolute values or as values averaged per km². villyc 1089 Add alternate names to groups, fleets, etc Overall GUI feature assessed 2012-02-29T17:18:53-08:00 2012-02-29T19:28:20-08:00 It would help to present a model to audiences from different languages if fleets, groups and possibly other entities could have multiple names such as common names, scientific names, Spanish names, etc. The user interface should have a way to choose what name to display. villyc 1102 Add BIGASC plug-in Overall Plugins feature assessed 2012-05-29T03:25:31-07:00 2012-05-29T03:25:31-07:00 "I retired with several algorithms that had been written, but which remained in a primitive state. (For example, BIGASC, which identifies the limiting elements and exchanges in a collection of multi-element networks (e.g., C, N, & P) describing an ecosystem. Ursula said she was going to try to enlist a mathematician/programmer to rehabilitate these programs into some contemporary language, like R. The thought came to me today that they might make useful ""plug-ins"" for ECOPATH?" bobu 1128 Ecospace results should show a time series graph as well or instead of the summary data Ecospace feature assessed 2012-08-24T09:14:20-07:00 2013-08-20T13:30:29-07:00 The Ecospace results are shown in a grid for two summary periods set by the user. This data should also shown as a time series graph over all the time steps. Internally the data is stored for all the time steps then summarized into the time periods for display. joeb 1132 Protect Ecospace from over-allocating habitats Ecospace feature assessed 2012-08-29T11:00:11-07:00 2013-08-20T13:33:16-07:00 New in version 6.3 is partial allocation of cells to habitats. The interface needs to prevent users to enter allocations > 1 jeroens 1185 Add time series type to insert egg production function via time series Overall feature assessed 2012-10-30T10:09:55-07:00 2012-10-30T10:09:55-07:00 Add new time series type that imports a time series into an egg production forcing function. villyc 1190 Add file templates for common import tasks to the samples folder Overall feature assessed 2012-11-02T18:35:00-07:00 2012-11-02T18:35:00-07:00 It would be really handy if EwE provided sample CSV files for the various import tasks, for instance for time series CSV files. jeroens 1214 Add silent install option Installation feature assessed 2013-01-09T11:37:10-08:00 2013-01-09T11:37:10-08:00 "A user wrote: Is there a silent installation parameter that can be passed to the Ecopath installer ""EwE6_6.3.8634.0_setup.exe""? Other users have requested this feature too. Perhaps a good thing to add in the next release, even though the installer offers plenty of choices." generic 1227 Show group breakdown by fleet catch Ecosim feature assessed 2013-02-19T00:42:18-08:00 2013-02-19T00:42:18-08:00 Group plots catch by fleets. It seems that your only a groups catch broken down in to fleets when the groups catch is dervied from relative effort series. In our case, all the key groups of intereset are driven by F series from assessment, and I cannot see that catch compositons by fleet. It would be really helpful if the breakdown can be displayed for these species. stevem 1260 Add option to show Fleets in flow diagram Ecopath feature assessed 2013-08-28T03:11:20-07:00 2013-08-29T01:48:22-07:00 "From the ICES 2013 course: Policy makers like to see a fleet diagram. Perhaps this option can be added to the Flow diagram that currently shows groups?" stevem 1311 Ecosim 'All fleets' item missing from fishing mortalities Ecosim feature assessed 2013-11-30T02:03:43-08:00 2018-05-09T04:45:49-07:00 "You used to be able to enter a comma-separated vector of fishing mortalities for all fleets via the 'set to value' button on run ecosim tab. that doesn't work now, you can only enter one fleet at a time. With the 'all fleets' item missing, these kind of bulk tasks cannot performed in Ecosim" camerona 1328 Add detailed breakdown of exports Ecopath feature assessed 2014-03-31T04:15:40-07:00 2014-03-31T07:27:44-07:00 "Please can we get a “real flow” estimate of all exports in Ecopath – not just fisheries but also any detritus that might be exported. This will help with hypoxia, eutrophication, etc. Also if we can in get any changes calculated in Ecosim it would be very useful. " sheilah 1357 Add ability to have non-feeding stanza life stages Ecopath feature assessed 2014-09-24T10:43:09-07:00 2014-09-24T10:43:09-07:00 The stanza life-stage interface should be able to cater to non-feeding spawners. This requires in a check box in the Stanza interface, which would suppress respiration checks, and changes to Ecopath villyc 1395 More control needed for Ecospace fishery Ecospace feature assessed 2015-10-02T02:18:37-07:00 2015-10-02T02:18:37-07:00 If Ecospace is to be used for management advise, users need better control to replicate historical fishing behaviour by entering fractions of habitat fishing instead of the current true/false implentation. stevem 1396 0 should be a valid time series value Overall feature assessed 2015-10-08T10:14:32-07:00 2015-10-08T10:14:32-07:00 "In every EwE version, 0 values are considered as no Time Series value. As a work-around, users can provide a very tiny number. This really needs to be changed: * empty CSV cells need to be converted to the internal NULL value * the core evaluates values >= 0 * the user interface must show empty cells for the internal NULL value" jeroens 1439 No network analysis stop option Network Analysis plug-in feature assessed 2016-05-18T13:11:35-07:00 2016-05-26T04:10:32-07:00 There is no way to stop network analysis davec 1486 Add ecosystem TL over time Ecosim feature assessed 2016-06-09T10:38:12-07:00 2016-06-09T10:38:12-07:00 I was wondering if there is a way to extract the Trophic Level of the whole ecosystem with Ecosim. Indeed, I only found the TL of the ecosystem from the Ecopath model, TL of the catch through time, and the TL of the groups through time; but not the TL of the ecosystem through time. I think it would be an interesting indicator to have ambres 1520 Add value per tonne as output Value Chain feature assessed 2016-11-14T02:13:00-08:00 2016-11-14T02:13:00-08:00 It would be handy if Value Chain could produce value per tonne per unit in its outputs. anah 1521 Value Chain flow needs customization options Value Chain feature assessed 2016-11-14T02:14:26-08:00 2016-11-14T02:14:26-08:00 Value Chain nodes need custom colours and images. Producer colours (and at some point images too) should be picked up from Ecopath jeroens 1522 Add Value Chain importer producers Value Chain feature assessed 2016-11-14T02:17:30-08:00 2016-11-14T02:17:30-08:00 Just like having exporters, it might be necessary to add importer producers. Importer producers would not have an Ecopath fleet connection, but instead inject a fixed, user entered biomass into the system. anah 1529 Add configurable time step to Model from Ecosim Ecopath from Ecosim plug-in feature assessed 2017-01-19T02:44:07-08:00 2017-01-19T02:44:07-08:00 The Ecopath model from Ecosim logic writes values for month 6 by default. This should be configurable jeroens 1542 Add ability to auto-save Ecospace summaries Ecospace feature not assessed 2017-11-10T02:09:21-08:00 2017-11-14T02:54:19-08:00 One question I had to facilitate things in terms of extracting results:is there a way we could export to csv the whole Ecospace results? i.e., all time steps for all groups so instead of me typing in the timestep differences I want then copy pasting the results and doing this 3 times over per run (as I want 5 years, 10 years and 25 years past the 29 year time step) - I could run some R code to extract ot from the csv?? that would save a lot of time colettew 1551 Multiple contaminants in Ecotracer Contaminant tracing feature assessed 2018-01-04T14:38:46-08:00 2018-01-04T14:56:17-08:00 Can you include multiple environmental contaminant compartments (so that we can separate the environmental concentration from water and sediment) with their own direct uptake rates per species, and/or is there a direct uptake flow from the detritus concentration Cd possible? I’m looking at Figure 2 in Walters and Christensen (2018) and would like to replicate it in some form in the proposal. Would it be fair to draw an arrow from Cd to direct uptake in Figure 2? Or otherwise create two Co boxes and specify that one is sediment and one is water? kimdem 1567 Apply shape dialog should show selected effect when row or col are clicked Ecosim feature assessed 2018-04-26T12:30:23-07:00 2018-05-09T04:56:38-07:00 When clicking a row or a column in the Ecosim apply forcing grids, users should be able to apply the same forcing function to the entire selected row or column. This does not work in 6.6 Beta jeroens 1599 Extend policy optimization Fishing Policy Search feature not assessed 2018-10-07T22:08:39-07:00 2018-10-07T22:08:39-07:00 "Let's add a way in the policy optimization to consider energy use and environmental impact by fleet. There are two variable needed: !EnergyConsumption and !EnvironmentalImpact, and they need to occur in various disguises, i.e. as public variables in !EcopathData and as properties in cEcopathFleetInput. They are both relative values, so the user decides what to enter, any single goes, default is 1. We should add them to the fleet input screen. Next, add s new variable !FoodValue(fleet, group) to optimize for food security. Then, we’ll need to add these three variables to the policy optimization forms and also to the Ecosim/space output forms (not displayed by default) I think these additions add a simple way to capture something useful." villyc 1601 HRC in Ecosim Ecosim feature not assessed 2018-10-07T23:10:50-07:00 2021-05-16T14:21:24-07:00 "Today we briefly mentioned the possibility of implementing a Harvest Control Rule in the standard Ecosim fisheries. At present it can only be done by stetting up an MSE (either Carl's closed loop, or the more flexible Mackinson add on). For each ecosim fishery, we would be need to be able to specify a HCR with a cut off biomass below which F is zero (or a specified minimum F as needed for many european fisheries), and a one or two step jump to a max F, or a hockey stick F regime. What is the likely cost? I am willing kick in some funding if we can find someone to help with the funding." tonyp 1602 Separate Lindeman calculations from main ENA loop Network Analysis plug-in feature assessed 2018-10-08T01:13:11-07:00 2018-10-08T01:13:11-07:00 The main ENA loop runs the Lindeman spine calculations, which are computationally expensive. The main ENA run loop could be split in two, where Lindeman is ran on demand. For some models this will dramatically speed up delivery of MTI indicators etc villyc