Simone K. Heinz

TL;DR: A proposed standard protocol for describing IBMs and ABMs, developed and tested by 28 modellers who cover a wide range of fields within ecology, and considered as a first step for establishing a more detailed common format of the description of IBm and ABM.

TL;DR: Analysis of the joint evolution of an ecological character and of dispersal distance in asexual and sexual populations inhabiting an environmental gradient shows that dispersal evolution is a powerful alternative to preference evolution in enabling spatially distributed sexual populations to respond to frequency-dependent disruptive selection.

TL;DR: It is shown that the evolution of patch searching strategies in three different landscape configurations found that landscape configuration strongly influenced the evolved search strategy and can affect landscape connectivity and metapopulation dynamics.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a simulation model focusing on animal dispersal to investigate the effects of landscape structure and dispersal behavior on patch accessibility, and they showed that there is an important intrinsic effect of the interplay between landscape structures and animals' dispersal behaviour.

TL;DR: The differentiation parameters between ‘true type’ wild apple and cultivars indicated a clear discrimination between the wild and cultivated apple individuals, confirming the existence of ‘ true type” M. sylvestris individuals in the East Ore Mountains and argues for the realization of preservation measures in this area.