Monte Carlo simulation program for ecosystems
Departament Tecnologia Computadors, Fiat. Informàatica, Universitat Politècmca Catalunya Pau Gargallo 5, 08028 Barcelona
1Departament Termologia, Facultat Fisica, Universitat Barcelona Diagonal 645, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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A Monte Carlo computer simulation program is designed in order to describe the spatial and time evolution of a population of living individuals under preassigned environmental conditions of energy. The simulation is inspired by previous techniques developed in physics in particular, in molecular dynamics and simulations of liquids and it already provides some new insights regarding macroscopic deterministic models in ecology and concerning eventual control of artificial biomass production plants.
Received on July 15, 1986; accepted on October 9, 1986