Affiliation:
1. United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Plant Protection Research Unit Federal Plant, Soil and Nutrition Laboratory Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853
Abstract
An object-oriented simulation program, SERB (Simulation En vironment for Research Biologists), has been used to simulate insect disease dynamics in a rangeland ecosystem. SERB was used to construct a mechanistic simulation model of a fungal pathogen of grasshoppers by synthesizing experimentally derived compo nents. Emphasis is placed on how SERB was used to construct and evaluate the model both in a piece-wise and combined manner to aid in understanding population interactions and dynamics. The interactive nature of SERB in the ZetaLisp environ ment was found to be highly conducive to model construction, manipulation and evaluation. Detailed examples from several phases of this process are presented from the perspective of a population bioligist. The orientation of SERB allows the research er to focus on a problem in an intuitive and systematic manner, in biological terms, unconstrained by details of an unfamiliar programming environment.
Subject
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design,Modelling and Simulation,Software
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