Ecological disturbance maintains and promotes biodiversity in an artificial plant ecology

Ben Clark; Seth Bullock

Ecological disturbance maintains and promotes biodiversity in an artificial plant ecology

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A model of plant growth, competition and reproduction in three dimensions was constructed using L-systems to simulate plant growth, ray tracing to simulate sunlight and shading, and a steady-state genetic algorithm to simulate evolution by natural selection. Simulated plant growth conformed to expected trade-o s between, for instance, growing up and growing out. Simulated cohorts exhibited conventional population-level phenomena such as obeying the self-thinning law. Competition between species was simulated under various disturbance regimes. Undisturbed, a K-selected type of plant species dominated at equilibrium. However, under certain disturbance regimes, diverse life-history strategies were able to coexist at equilibrium, and even speciate

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Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB 2002)
Editors	Bridget Hallam, Dario Floreano, John Hallam, Gillian Hayes, Jean-Arcady Meyer
Publisher	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Press
Pages	355-356
Number of pages	2
Publication status	Published - 2002

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Clark, B., & Bullock, S. (2002). Ecological disturbance maintains and promotes biodiversity in an artificial plant ecology. In B. Hallam, D. Floreano, J. Hallam, G. Hayes, & J.-A. Meyer (Eds.), Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB 2002) (pp. 355-356). Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Press. http://seis.bris.ac.uk/~sb15704/pubs_abstracts.html#eps261461

Clark, Ben ; Bullock, Seth. / Ecological disturbance maintains and promotes biodiversity in an artificial plant ecology. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB 2002). editor / Bridget Hallam ; Dario Floreano ; John Hallam ; Gillian Hayes ; Jean-Arcady Meyer. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Press, 2002. pp. 355-356

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Clark, B & Bullock, S 2002, Ecological disturbance maintains and promotes biodiversity in an artificial plant ecology. in B Hallam, D Floreano, J Hallam, G Hayes & J-A Meyer (eds), Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB 2002). Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Press, pp. 355-356. <http://seis.bris.ac.uk/~sb15704/pubs_abstracts.html#eps261461>

Ecological disturbance maintains and promotes biodiversity in an artificial plant ecology. / Clark, Ben; Bullock, Seth.
Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB 2002). ed. / Bridget Hallam; Dario Floreano; John Hallam; Gillian Hayes; Jean-Arcady Meyer. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Press, 2002. p. 355-356.

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