Guides

task-oriented · start here

Practical, sequential walkthroughs. For the why, read the theory; for function signatures, the reference site.

Getting started

• Installation
• Your first individual — grow a single plant and read its state, rates, and trajectory.

Running the model

• Patch dynamics — grow a patch of competing plants and explore the light environment.
• Strategies & traits — change parameters, build trait matrices, and set control accuracy.
• Extrinsic drivers — drive a run with time-varying rainfall or birth rates.
• Calibration

Worked examples

• Example analysis — the full pipeline, setup to results.
• Self-thinning — recover the classic size–density line.
• Emergent properties — integrate patch outputs up to the metapopulation.