The role of memory in ecological systems

A cellular automaton model of a middle European beech forest mosaic cycle is used to demonstrate the essential role played by memory in a spatially extended artificial ecology. The emergent spatial structure is shown to be fundamentally dependent on the amplification of local interactions by the mechanism of memory.

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