Gurney, W.S.C. and Speirs, D. and Wood, S.N. and Clarke, E.D. and Heath, M.R. (2001) Simulating spatially and physiologically structured populations. Journal of Animal Ecology, 70. pp. 881-894. ISSN 0021-8790
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Population dynamics are frequently the product of a subtle interplay between development and dispersal in an inhomogeneous environment. Simulations of spatially inhomogeneous populations with physiologically distinguishable individuals are a known source of numerical difficulty. This paper reports a new and highly efficient algorithm for this problem, whose accuracy we demonstrate by comparison with conventional numerical solutions of one-dimensional problems. As an illustration, we construct a two (space)-dimensional model of a copepod (Calanus finmarchicus) in the NE Atlantic, and demonstrate that its predictions correspond closely with those of an equivalent Lagrangian ensemble.
| Item type: | Article |
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| ID code: | 4578 |
| Keywords: | population dynamics, biology, statistics, modelling science, Probabilities. Mathematical statistics, Biology |
| Subjects: | Science > Mathematics > Probabilities. Mathematical statistics Science > Natural history > Biology |
| Department: | Faculty of Science > Mathematics and Statistics |
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| Depositing user: | Strathprints Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Nov 2007 |
| Last modified: | 12 Mar 2012 10:41 |
| URI: | http://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/4578 |
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