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Giuseppe Buffoni1, Sara Pasquali
1CNR-IMATI, Via Bassini 15, 20133 Milan, Italy. giuseppe.buffoni@enea.it
Abstract:
Individual-based models describe the growth dynamics of a population by performing numerical simulations of the life histories of its individuals. The life of an individual is determined by the basic processes of development, reproduction and mortality. In this paper the model equations for the development process are stochastic difference equations with discrete time and describe the time evolution of the status of an individual, in terms of a physiological age. We address the formulation of development models, when "regression" effects (defined as negative development) on the status of an individual are forbidden; this is a natural assumption when the physiological age is defined in terms of an abstract non-decreasing indicator measuring the maturity or the percentage of development. Different stochastic models of the development process are presented, and their behaviours are analyzed by varying the stochasticity level, which takes into account the degree of intraspecific variability. Moreover, remarks on the choice of the time step are reported.
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