TY - JOUR T1 - A mechanistic model of the S-shaped population growth JF - bioRxiv DO - 10.1101/012104 SP - 012104 AU - Lev V. Kalmykov Y1 - 2014/01/01 UR - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2014/12/03/012104.abstract N2 - The main idea of this note is to show the most basic and purely mechanistic model of population growth, which has been used by us to create models of interspecific competition for verification of the competitive exclusion principle (1, 2). Our logical deterministic individual-based cellular automata model demonstrates a spatio-temporal mechanism of the S-shaped population growth. ER -