Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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14683 | Biotechnology Advances | 2009 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
The assessment of ecological risk in genetically modified (GM) biological systems is critically important for decision-making and public acceptance. Cellular automata (CA) provide a potential modeling and simulation framework for representing relationships and interspecies interactions both temporally and spatially. In this paper, a simple subsystem contains only four species: crop, target pest, non-target pest and enemy insect, and a three layer arrangement of L × L stochastic cellular automata with a periodic boundary were established. The simulation of this simplified system showed abundant and sufficient complexity in population assembly and densities, suggesting a prospective application in ecological risk assessment of GM crops.
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Authors
Jun Yang, Zhi-Rui Wang, De-Li Yang, Qing Yang, Jun Yan, Ming-Feng He,