Impact of changing flood regime on a lakeshore plant community: Long-term observations and individual-based simulation

The study demonstrates that an individual-based model can be developed on the basis of nonstationary, temporally and spatially changing local abundance data. Such a model goes beyond conventional matrix modelling by the inclusion of nonlinear features as a consequence of individual interactions, and such features turn out to be decisive factor for dealing with species coexistence and displacement in a plant community.