gen3sis
A general engine for spatially explicit eco-evolutionary simulations of biodiversity.
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Cited 125 times on Google Scholar (as of 23 October 2026)
gen3sis is a general engine for spatially explicit eco-evolutionary simulations. It models species’ abiotic tolerances, biotic interactions, dispersal, speciation and trait evolution across real or theoretical landscapes that change over time. Biodiversity patterns such as species richness, range sizes and phylogenies are not imposed but emerge as the simulation runs.
Its modular design makes it possible to implement alternative mechanisms and compare them against observed patterns. The paper describing the engine does this for competing explanations of the latitudinal diversity gradient.
Authors: Oskar Hagen (maintainer), Benjamin Flück, Fabian Fopp, Juliano S. Cabral, Florian Hartig, Mikael Pontarp, Thiago F. Rangel, Loïc Pellissier. Contributors: Charles Novaes de Santana, Theo Gaboriau. Developed at ETH Zürich and WSL.
Paper describing gen3sis
Citations
gen3sis has been cited 125 times on Google Scholar as of 23 October 2026. These are the citations of the paper describing it. The chart shows how they are distributed over the years, as of 20 October 2026; the 2026 figure covers the year up to that date.
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Widely cited work citing gen3sis
The most-cited articles that cite gen3sis or its paper, ranked by their own citation count in OpenAlex; the group's own papers are left out.
- Earth history events shaped the evolution of uneven biodiversity across tropical moist forests
- Understanding the relationship between dispersal and range size
- Geodiversity: a significant, multi-faceted and evolving, geoscientific paradigm rather than a redundant term
- Resolution in species distribution models shapes spatial patterns of plant multifaceted diversity
- Numerical modeling of subduction: State of the art and future directions