Tim Taylor | EvoBee simulation example: 2 species, 1-way pollen clogging @drtimt | Uploaded October 2017 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Demo output of the EvoBee simulation of bee pollination of two plant species (the red and blue dots), where the pollen of one species (red) clogs the other species. The simulation consists of a number of foraging bouts of bees (trails in the visualisation show the path of each bee, and the red and blue flowers change to grey squares when they are pollinated. At the end of each foraging bout, a new population of red and blue plants is generated, based upon the pollinated seeds from the previous generation. After a small number of generations the red plants achieve fixation in the population (completely wiping out the blue plants), because of the asymmetrical pollen clogging.
Work by Tim Taylor (Monash University), Alan Dorin (Monash University) and Adrian Dyer (RMIT).
The simulator code is available at github.com/tim-taylor/evobee (NB the simulation in this video has been slowed down for visualisation purposes!)
Demo output of the EvoBee simulation of bee pollination of two plant species (the red and blue dots), where the pollen of one species (red) clogs the other species. The simulation consists of a number of foraging bouts of bees (trails in the visualisation show the path of each bee, and the red and blue flowers change to grey squares when they are pollinated. At the end of each foraging bout, a new population of red and blue plants is generated, based upon the pollinated seeds from the previous generation. After a small number of generations the red plants achieve fixation in the population (completely wiping out the blue plants), because of the asymmetrical pollen clogging.
Work by Tim Taylor (Monash University), Alan Dorin (Monash University) and Adrian Dyer (RMIT).
The simulator code is available at github.com/tim-taylor/evobee (NB the simulation in this video has been slowed down for visualisation purposes!)
