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Selforganizology, 2014, 1(1): 16-22
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A framework for agent-based modeling of community assembly and succession

WenJun Zhang
School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China; International Academy of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Hong Kong

Received 8 January 2014;Accepted 23 February 2014;Published online 1 June 2014
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Abstract
Ecological communities are self-adaptive systems. Community assembly and succession is a self-organizing process. It is generated from multiple species invasions, selection, adaptation and optimization. A framework for agent-based modeling of community assembly and succession was presented in this paper. Species agents, space agents, functional agents and their behaviors were defined. Major procedures for agent-based modeling of community assembly and succession were proposed.

Keywords agent-based modeling;framework;ecological community;assembly;succession.

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