Wednesday, August 26, 2009

New Algorithm Explores Future Changes In Plant Populations

Saw this via a friend, New algorithm explores future changes in plant populations.

"It is called spatially explicit, reiterative algorithm, or SERA—that explores whether changes occurring in plant communities, such as self-thinning and the competitive displacement of one species by another, can be attributed to the characteristics of the individual plants that comprise the community.

‘Our model predicts how a plant population or community will behave when plant-plant interactions are predicated exclusively on the constraints imposed by a few physical principles and by competition for physical space and light,’ stated Dr. Niklas."

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