2015/05/08 by Pablo Ramón, Ramon, Pablo, Angelo Troina +1
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Computer Science · Engineering · #Cellular Automata and Applications #DNA and Biological Computing #FOS: Biological sciences #Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence #Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1505.01985
openalex publication_date 2015/05/08 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
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.