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A finite element method to solve a population dynamics stage-structured model of intertidal barnacles |
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| Authors: | Ana Paula C Rio Doce Regina C Almeida Michel Ida S Costa |
| Institution: | 1. The Computational Modelling Program, Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica-LNCC/MCT, Brazil;2. Department of Computational Mechanics, Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica-LNCC/MCT, Av. Getúlio Vargas, 333-Petrópolis, RJ CEP 25651-075, Brazil;3. Department of Systems and Control, Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica-LNCC/MCT, Av. Getúlio Vargas, 333-Petrópolis, RJ CEP 25651-075, Brazil |
| Abstract: | Many marine organisms are fixed or highly sedentary as adults but the adult population may be strongly dependent on the oceanic transport of planktonic larvae. In order to assess interactions between oceanographic and biological processes that determine the population dynamics of marine organisms with a sessile adult phase restricted to the coastline and a planktonic larval phase, we present a stage-structured finite element model for the barnacle Balanus glandula that inhabits the rocky intertidal zone of central California, USA. |
| Keywords: | Population dynamics Finite element methods Stage-structured life cycle Biological and physical coupling |
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