Seeing The Tree From The Forest: Predicting The Future Of Plant Communities
Friday, August 28, 2009 - 23:40
in Earth & Climate
A recent paper presents an algorithm that may be used to predict the future dynamics of plant communities, an increasingly interesting area of study as significant environmental changes, such as global climate change and invasive species, are affecting current plant communities. A goal of plant ecology has been to find ways to predict plant behavior in communities based on observed properties of a few representative members.