Metapop: An individual-based model for simulating the evolution of tree populations in spatially and temporally heterogeneous landscapes
Authored by Jean-Paul Soularue, Armel Thoni, Leo Arnoux, Corre Valerie Le, Antoine Kremer
Date Published: 2019
DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.12958
Sponsors:
French National Research Agency (ANR)
European Research Council (ERC)
Platforms:
C++
Model Documentation:
Other Narrative
Mathematical description
Model Code URLs:
https://quercusportal.pierroton.inra.fr/index.php?p=METAPOP
Abstract
Metapop is a stochastic individual-based simulation program. It uses
quantitative genetics theory to produce an explicit description of the
typical life cycle of monoecious and hermaphroditic plant species.
Genome structure, the relationship between genotype and phenotype, and
the effects of landscape heterogeneity on each individual can be finely
parameterized by the user. Unlike most existing simulation packages,
Metapop can simulate phenotypic plasticity, which may have a genetic
component, and assortative mating, two important features of tree
species. Each simulation is parameterized through text files, and raw
data are generated recurrently, describing the allelic state of each
quantitative trait locus involved in phenotypic variability. The data
can be generated in Genepop or Fstat format, and may thus be analysed
with other existing packages. Metapop also automatically computes a
range of populations statistics, enabling the user to monitor
evolutionary dynamics directly, from gene to metapopulation level.
Tags
Simulation
differentiation
selection
software
assortative mating
Mutation
Landscape heterogeneity
Variability
Responses
Plasticity
Quantitative trait loci
Phenology
Quantitative genetics
Phenotypic
plasticity
Forest trees
Genetic architecture
Stochastic
individual-based modelling