Project

Population viability in fragmented rainforest: integrating individual-based modeling with landscape dynamics and connectivity

Code
3G005508
Duration
01 January 2008 → 30 December 2013
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Research disciplines
  • Natural sciences
    • Animal biology
  • Agricultural and food sciences
    • Forestry sciences
Keywords
PVA population ecology IBM
 
Project description

This project aims to study factors that affect the long-term population viability of Afrotropical bird species for which forest deterioration and isolation act synergistically at different spatial scales. We therefore parameterize and integrate spatially-explicit metapopulation-, forest- and landscape-models that encompass both fine-grained and coarse-grained dynamic processes. Dispersal is studied through controlled release experiments.