Stochastic models and statistical inference for plant pollen dispersal
Modelling pollen dispersal is essential to make predictions of cross-pollination rates in various environmental conditions between plants of a cultivated species. An important tool for studying this problem is the “individual pollen dispersal function” or “kernel dispersal”. Various models for airborne pollen dispersal are developed. These models are based on assumptions about wind directionality, gravity, settling velocity and may integrate other biological or external parameters. Some previous...