Ecopath with Ecosim as a model-building toolbox: Source code capabilities, extensions, and variations

Ecopath with Ecosim(EwE) is a widely applied food webmodel that is mostly known as desktop software for the Microsoft Windowsplatform. The freely available Microsoft .NET source codeof EwE, however, provides a range of possibilities to use the model in different ways, to customize and extend the model, and to execute the model on different operating systems.