Modelling group dynamics

I am collaborating with the Kalahari Meerkat Project (in particular Prof. Tim Clutton-Brock  from Univ. Cambridge) on developing individual-based models of meerkat (Suricata suricatta) group dynamics.

I am collaborating with several researchers attempting to forecast responses of Mediterranean plant communities to drought. My role is to understand how including demographic rates and population dynamics can improve such forecasts. More info coming soon. 

I am participating in this SNF-funded project, where the aim is to develop a metapopulation model that incorporates four demographic aspects (density, environmental autocorrelation, and vital-rate reaction norms and covariation). This model will serve to investigate the implications of omitting one or more of these aspects for predicting the dynamics of spatially structured populations. We will test the model with long-term demographic and dispersal data from actively dispersing mammals, passively dispersing plants, and actively and passively dispersing laboratory invertebrates.