Jogos cíclicos de biodiversidade

Abstract

The brazilian territory, at the present geological era, is one of the richest lands on Earth in terms of life diversity. The devastation of such lands has a direct negative effect on the suitable climate conditions that sustains life as we know it. One of the most fundamental and unpostponable problem that humanity faces is that of the species diversity preservation on the planet, for this reason, it is necesessary and urgent to understand the elementary rules that promotes biodiversity. In this work, the phenomena of biodiversity is studies via cellular automata, whereby a comunity dynamics among three species cyclicaly competing against each other is reproduced. Two brand new models are elaborates, in the first one, the individuals are able to move inside a extended neighborhood, in many different scenarios. This affects directly its correlation with the space around it. In the second study, a fourth species is introduced, its ecological function is to invade one of the three species. Three new phases emerge due to the presence of the new species.