Modelling ecological systems with the calculus of wrapped compartments

  • Authors:
  • Pablo Ramón;Angelo Troina

  • Affiliations:
  • Departamento de Ciencias Naturales, Sección Ecología, Universidad Tecnica Particular de Loja, Ecuador;Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Torino, Italy

  • Venue:
  • CMC'12 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Membrane Computing
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

The Calculus of Wrapped Compartments is a framework based on stochastic multiset rewriting in a compartmentalised setting originally developed for the modelling and analysis of biological interactions. In this paper, we propose to use this calculus for the description of ecological systems and we provide the modelling guidelines to encode within the calculus some of the main interactions leading ecosystems evolution. As a case study, we model the distribution of height of Croton wagneri, a shrub constituting the endemic predominant species of the dry ecosystem in southern Ecuador. In particular, we consider the plant at different altitude gradients (i.e. at different temperature conditions), to study how it adapts under the effects of global climate change.