Turning Point: Drew Purves

摘要

Drew Purves, who heads the Computational Ecology and Environmental Science group at Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK, published the first-ever mechanistic general ecosystem model in April (M. B. J. Harfoot et al. PLoS Biol. 12, e1001841; 2014). This tool simulates the interactions of all organisms on Earth and the underlying ecological mechanisms that govern biodiversity patterns, which may help to predict how invasive species or pollution shape the world.