Ecospace results are not consistent with input parameters- dispersal rates

[carieh]

This is from Maria, and her problem is as follows
-she has an ecospace model where sea otters are locked into one cell (10km) in the basemap with a dispersal rate of 2 km/year.
-when she runs ecospace and looks at the results for different years, it shows the sea otters in other sells within the first year (which they should not be).

• She has assigned habitats and areas within the model...one thought is that these may be locked together in the coding causing them to be found in the same habitat but not the same area?

-Please let me know if you want me to make a mock-up model or send you hers.
Carie

[joeb]

This is a Feature not a bug... When Ecospace initializes it disperses a small proportion of biomass to cells that are not in the assigned habitat.

[joeb]

This 'Feature' is by design... see note