The plateau pika is a keystone species of Qinghai–Tibet plateau, but its overabundance aggravates the degradation of alpine meadow. Grazing is the most convenient manner to utilize alpine meadow. Grazing would change vegetation condition, that is, change the habitat of plateau pika and so lead to variation of plateau pika population. Based on ecological characteristics of plateau pika and alpine meadow, a cellular-automata model is established to investigate the influence of grazing on dynamics of plateau pika population. Vegetation shortens with the increase of grazing intensity. When grazing intensity is light, the height of vegetation under summer grazing, continuous grazing, rotational grazing and winter grazing decrease in turn. The ACC (average carrying capacity of plateau pika) is higher on degraded meadow and is lower on undegraded meadow. On undegraded meadow grazing affects the value of ACC, whereas, on degraded meadow grazing has slight effect on it. On undegraded meadow, plateau pika occupies all cells speedly, the amount of damaged cells and the average amount of live holes in occupied cells decrease or hold the line on temporal dimension. On degraded meadow, the dispersal of plateau pika is restrained, the amount of damaged cells and the average amount of live holes in occupied cells increase on temporal dimension.
Tensor approach to software implementation of cellular automata model of diffusion