An individual-based model for clonal plant dynamics

Fabien Campillo (1, 2) , Nicolas Champagnat (3, 4)

1 MODEMIC - Modelling and Optimisation of the Dynamics of Ecosystems with MICro-organisme
2 MISTEA - Mathématiques, Informatique et STatistique pour l'Environnement et l'Agronomie
3 TOSCA - Simuler et calibrer des modèles stochastiques
4 IECN - Institut Élie Cartan de Nancy

We propose an IBM for clonal plant dynamics, focusing on the effects of the network structure of the plants on the reproductive strategy of ramets. After some numerical tests we propose a large population approxima- tion as an advection-diffusion PDE for population densities.

Mots clés: Markov process; individual-based model (IBM)

Domaines: Probabilités [math.PR]; Biodiversité et Ecologie

Fabien Campillo, Nicolas Champagnat. An individual-based model for clonal plant dynamics. 4th International Conference on Approximation Methods and Numerical Modelling in Environment and Natural Resources (MAMERN11), May 2011, Saidia, Morocco. 4 p. ⟨hal-00651837⟩