Self-assembling Plants and Integration across Ecological Scales

• Published in: Annals of botany Vol. 99; no. 5; pp. 1023 - 1034
• Main Authors: Hunt, Roderick, Colasanti, R.L
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Oxford University Press 01.05.2007; Oxford Publishing Limited (England)
• Subjects: Angiospermae; Biodiversity; Cellular automata; Comparative Plant Ecology; Ecological modeling; Ecology; Ecosystem; Foraging; growth models; Heterogeneity; Models, Biological; Natural vegetation; plant communities; Plant Development; Plant ecology; Plant growth; Plant nutrition; Plant Physiological Phenomena; Plants; Population Dynamics; Population ecology; Self assembly; simulation models; Synecology; Vegetation; biodiversity; Self-assembling plants; vegetation dynamics; community; emergent properties; L-system; cellular automata; population

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Although individual plants exhibit much complex behaviour in response to environmental stimuli, they appear to do so without any identifiable centres of organization. We review a special class of model with the aim of testing whether plants can effectively be self-assembling, mo...