VIP

Virtual reconstitution of a Prairie

Cendrine Mony(*), Marc Garbey(**), Malek Smaoui(**) and Marie-Lise Benot(*)
(*) UMR CNRS 6553 ECOBIO, University of Rennes1, FRANCE
(**) Department of Computer Science, University of Houston, USA


Through the ViP project, the effects of management practices on plant competition and genetic structure of the prairie will be forecast.

In our project, experimental data from both statistical measurements in prairie and controlled experiments on individual clonal plant growth under various environmental conditions provide the basis for modeling. An individual agent based model simulates individual plants as a growing network of ramets (i.e. new clonal individuals) and connexions (structures linking the ramets and promoting plant propagation in space).


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