Integrating an Agent-Based Model for E. coli Behaviour with a Tracer-Aided Hydrological Model to Test a Perceptual Model Linking Catchment Hydrological Functioning to Microbial Water Quality


Aaron J Neill1, Doerthe Tetzlaff1,2, Norval Strachan3, Rupert L Hough4, Lisa M Avery4 and Chris Soulsby5, (1)University of Aberdeen, Northern Rivers Institute, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, (2)Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany, (3)University of Aberdeen, School of Biological Sciences, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, (4)James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, (5)University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom