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Luba - MSc Student, Nathan Lab Berman building, room 101
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Research Interest: Ecology of dispersal focusing on animal movement I am a MSc student in the Movement Ecology Lab. In animal-dispersed plants, the spatial arrangement of dispersed seeds depends greatly on the disperser activity. Animal behavior, and especially movement, is complex and difficult to measure. Mechanistic models can provide a way to evaluate the relative importance of many factors involved in seed dispersal by animals. The model I'm developing an individual-based mathematical model for seed dispersal by animals. With the help of this model, I intend to test the hypothesis of directed dispersal in specific habitats, to evaluate the effects of landscape heterogeneity and fragmentation, and to predict frequency of LDD events, independent of observed data.
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