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Understanding Changes In Marine Communities Through A Discretized, Size-Structured Matrix Model, Courtney Swanson
Understanding Changes In Marine Communities Through A Discretized, Size-Structured Matrix Model, Courtney Swanson
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We study a discretized, size-structured matrix model which calculates population in a marine community over time. A portion of this model is a discretized version of the McKendrick-von Foerster equation, so we spend some time studying the process of discretizing that equation. We implement a mini model containing 10 size categories instead of the original 50, and we looked at how the marine community behaves over 40 years. We discuss some of the challenges when implementing this model.