Spatial Simulation Models
There are two broad types of spatial simulation models:
- spatial models that are divided but not spatially explicit;
- spatially explicit models where neighbours can be important.
Metapopulation dynamics is a classic example of a spatial model that is not spatially explicit. Patches are occupied or not, but the fate of a patch is not related to the fate of its immediate neighbours but rather by the global supply of propagules generated by all the occupied patches in the entire metapopulation.
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