Mechanistic modeling of seed dispersal by wind over hilly terrain

A. Trakhtenbrot, G.G. Katul and R. Nathan

Ecological Modelling, 2014, vol. 274, issue C, 29-40

Abstract: Seed dispersal is the main movement mechanism used by plants. The last decade saw rapid progress in understanding the underlying processes, especially for dispersal by wind, in part due to new mechanistic modeling approaches that account for turbulent fluctuations. Yet, current wind dispersal models stop short of explicitly incorporating the effects of landscape topography on the main transporting vector – wind, so that the effects of wind variability over hills on dispersal patterns remain by and large unstudied.

Keywords: Seed dispersal by wind over non-flat topography; Mechanistic seed dispersal model; Landscape heterogeneity effects on seed vector movement; Anisotropic dispersal kernel; Coupled Eulerian–Lagrangian closure (CELC) approach; Connectivity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2013.11.029

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