Modeling competition between plants using an Individual Based Model: Methods and effects on the growth of two species with contrasted growth forms

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 234, Issue , 2012, Pages 38-50

  Bittebiere, A K ^a   Mony, C ^a   Clement B ^a   Garbey, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b University of Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

Clonal plant; Competition; Individual Based Model; Method comparison

Indexed keywords

CLONAL PLANT; COMPETITIVE INTERACTIONS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GROWTH FORM; INDIVIDUAL BASED MODEL; INTENSITY OF COMPETITION; INTERACTION RULES; METHOD COMPARISON; MODEL OUTPUTS; MODELING APPROACH; PLANT RESPONSE;

COMPETITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ECOLOGY;

CALIBRATION; CLONAL ORGANISM; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GROWTH FORM; GROWTH MODELING; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODEL; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; LITERATURE REVIEW; MONOCULTURE;

EID: 84860600544     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2011.05.028     Document Type: Article

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