An educational simulation tool to address some challenges for sustaining functional agrodiversity in agro-ecosystems
Functional agrodiversity can be useful and even essential for, i.e., the long-term sustainability of agriculture. However, still many aspects of this concept are not well understood. The interplay between species in diverse agro-ecosystems is based on processes as, i.e., competition, facilitation, and predator-prey relations. The net-effect of these processes on crop growth is not static and can change over time as the relative density of species change. The equilibrium state of a diverse agro-ecosystem might be far from optimum or even unproductive. This makes agrodiveristy a concept which is not easily grasped nor obtained or maintained. We believe that an agent-based model can facilitate learning on the topic of functional agrodiversity. In this paper, we present the agent-based simulation model, Agrodiversity v.2, developed in Netlogo 3.1.5.
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| Format: | Texto biblioteca |
| Language: | eng |
| Subjects: | Agrobiodiversidad, Modelos de simulación, Agricultura sostenible, |
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