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Development Of Wild Oat Seed Dispersal Distributions Using An Individual-Plant Growth Simulation Model, William J. Price, Bahman Shafii, Donald C. Thill

Conference on Applied Statistics in Agriculture

An individual-plant growth simulation model for quantifying competition between spring barley and wild oat has been previously described (price, Shafii, and Thill, 1994). Individual plants within a population were modeled independently and competition between plants was determined by resource demand within plant specific areas-of-influence. Calibration of the model to spring barley and wild oat biomass data was performed and shown to have a high degree of accuracy under mono culture conditions. The work presented here applies the specified model to a larger scale simulation for the purpose of demonstrating seed dispersal in wild oat. This is accomplished by breaking the …