The Applied Vegetation Dynamics Laboratory - Research Approaches

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Multivariate
modelling

Process-based
models

Cellular automata
modelling

Selected
references

	Approaches - Modelling Cellular automata modelling In collaboration with Dr Andrea Britton and Dr Robin Pakeman we developed a cellular automata based model of Deschampsia flexuosa invasion into lowland Calluna-dominated heaths. Various parameters could be varied including climate, nitrogen deposition and various conservation management treatments. This model predicts that for east Anglia, the low rainfall may be the most significant factor. Our Cellular Automata model The species occupying a cell at time t is derived from it's own state and that of it's four nearest neighbours at time t -1.


	Collaborators: Dr Andrea Britton, Dr Robin Pakeman, Graduate students Steve Paterson 1996. Control and modelling of bracken (Pteridium aquilinum (L) Kuhn) in Great Britain Andrea Britton 1998. Modelling invasions on heathlands Mitchell, R.J. 1997. Studies of succession on Dorset heaths.

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