In December, Laurence Ketchemen Tchouaga defended her thesis entitled Population dynamics in patchy landscapes under monostable and bistable dynamics. She has moved on to a postdoc at McGill University. We wish her all the best.
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Congratulations
Jane Shaw MacDonald successfully defended her PhD in September. The thesis title is Numerical Methods for Moving-Habitat Models in One and Two Spatial Dimensions. We wish her all the best in the next steps of her career.
Climate-induced change in synchrony (new Ecography paper)
Many consumer-resource interactions require relatively close synchrony between their life cycles. If their life cycles depend on temperature, then climate change may affect the degree of synchrony. We developed a simple mathematical model for heat accumulation from which one can predict synchrony or mismatch based on a temperature time series. This work, with an application […]
Turing patterns in patchy landscapes
New work on the effect of habitat heterogeneity on pattern formation appeared in Math Biosci Eng Diffusion-driven instability and Turing pattern formation are a well-known mechanism by which the local interaction of species, combined with random spatial movement, can generate stable patterns of population densities in the absence of spatial heterogeneity of the underlying medium. […]
Homogenization paper in Methods in Ecology and Evolution
Bridging the scale gap has appeared. On homogenization methods in ecology. With Christina Cobbold and Brian Yurk Often, ecologists are challenged with a mismatch of scales: how do we up-scale from local variation and available data to landscape-level models and predictions? We present a general recipe for coarse-graining from local to landscape-scale reaction-diffusion equations when […]
Congratulations
Nazanin Zaker successfully defended her PhD thesis in May 2021. Congratulations and all the best for the next steps of your career. Here is a link to the thesis
Postdoctoral Fellowship
Mathematical modeling for connectivity: From structural to functional indicators for freshwater biota Applications are invited for a postdoctoral fellowship in modelling fish population dynamics in watersheds. The goal of this research is to relate structural to functional indicators of connectivity in river networks. The research is conducted in collaboration with Environment and Climate Change Canada […]
Congratulations
Noah Bolohan successfully defended his thesis entitled: Seasonal Variation in a Predator–Predator–Prey Model. Well done. Good luck for the next steps in your career.
Congratulations
Tricia Morris successfully defended her MSc entitled: Modelling the evolution of flowering time in perennial plants. Well done. Good luck for where you are going.
Integrodifference book available
My book on integrodifference equations in spatial ecology appeared in the Springer series Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics. It is available at the Springer website. https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030292935