Model Comparison for Abiotic versus Biotic Pollen Dispersal

Foster EL, Chan DM, Dyer RJ. Model Comparison for Abiotic versus Biotic Pollen Dispersal. Nonlinear Dynamics Psychol Life Sci. 2016 Oct;20(4):471-83. PMID: 27550704.

Abstract

An agent-based model with a correlated random walk is used to explore pollination within a forest. For abiotic dispersal, say via the wind, we use a purely random walk where there is no correlation between consecutive steps and for biotic dispersal, say via insect, we use a moderate or highly correlated random walk. In particular, we examine the differences in a number of biological measurement between a purely random walk and a correlated random walk in terms of gene dispersal in low and high plant densities.