Deterministic modelling of seed dispersal based on observed behaviours of an endemic primate in Brazil.

ABSTRACT: Plant species models are among the available tools to predict the future of ecosystems threatened by climate change, habitat loss, and degradation. However, they suffer from low to no inclusion of plant dispersal, which is necessary to predict ecosystem evolution. A variety of seed dispersal models have been conceived for anemochorous and zoochorous plant species, but the coupling between vegetation models and seed dispersal processes remains rare. The main challenge in modelling zoochoric dispersal is simulating animal movements in their complex habitat. Recent developments allow straightforward applications of hidden Markov modelling (HMM) to animal movements, which could ease generalizations when modelling zoochoric seed dispersal. We tested the use of HMM to model seed dispersal by an

SUBMITTER: Raghunathan N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7769435 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature