Codice 02/2009 Titolo A couple ecological-hydrodynamic model for the spatial distribution of sessile aquatic species in thermally forced basins Data 2009-01-16 Autore/i Bonaventura, Luca; Biotto, Cristian; Decoene, Astrid; Mari, Lorenzo; Miglio, Edie Link Download full text Pubblicato L. Mari and C. Biotto and A. Decoene and L. Bonaventura, A coupled ecological-hydrodynamic model for the spatial distribution of sessile aquatic species in thermally forced basins, Ecological Modelling, Vol. 220, pp. 2310-2324, 2009 Abstract The life cycle of several sessile or highly sedentary aquatic species is characterized by a pelagic stage, during which propagules are dispersed by the water flow. As a consequence, hydrodynamics plays a crucial role in redistributing offspring, thus deeply influencing the spatiotemporal dynamics of such species. In this work, we describe an integrated modeling framework that allows the coupling of a minimal – yet biologically well founded – ecological model for population dynamics at the local scale to an efficient numerical model of three dimensional