An individual-based, stochastic and spatial model to simulate the ramification of grass tillers and their distribution in swards

Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 308-334

  Mazel, Claude ^a   Lafarge, Michel ^b   Hill, David R C ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b French National Institute of Agricultural Research   (France)

Author keywords

Biology; Discrete simulation; Ecology; Grass; Object oriented; Stochastic

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POPULATION STATISTICS; VEGETATION;

DISCRETE SIMULATION; GRASS; OBJECT-ORIENTED; STOCHASTICS;

ECOLOGY;

EID: 18144366961     PISSN: 1569190X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.simpat.2004.11.007     Document Type: Article

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