Special Session 14: 

Mathematical modelling for complex forest ecosystems

Olivier Goubet
LAMFA UMR 7352 CNRS UPJV
France
Co-Author(s):    Gauthier Delvoye, Frederic Paccaut
Abstract:
The mathematical modelling of plant species in a forest environment require tools from PDEs at a continuous scale and from Markov chains at a discrete scale. We discuss here the link between these models for a plant metacommunity and we show that taking into account the exchange between forest patches improves the biodiversity, for a simple neutral model. This work is supported by CNRS with a Prime80 grant.