A paper presenting a mechanistic simulator of a virtual species has been published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution: https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14475
The article is part of the PhD thesis of Katarzyna Markowska from the Population Ecology Lab. The research was funded by the National Science Centre (grant no. 2018/29/B/NZ8/00066) and the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Centre (grant 403).