Mathematical Biology Seminar: Aditya Raghavan
- Date: 03/26/2012
- Time: 15:00
Lecturer(s):
Aditya Raghavan
Location:
University of Alberta
Topic:
An Integro-difference model for tropical plant populations
Description:
Given the vast amount of fieldwork data that exists for tropical plant and tree communities, it is of foremost interest to develop a mechanistic model to describe plant population dynamics. Since tropical forests not only have a large number of species but also have very little seasonality, a stage-based, deterministic model has not been attempted prior to this. We set up a three-stage integro-difference model to study such an environment taking into account competitive terms for competition between the most competitive trees.
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