Seminar: Madli Jõks

Biodiversity drivers on real and habitat islands, explored by agent-based simulation models

MSc. Madli Jõks (Tartu Ülikool/ University of Tartu) 

Oceanic islands and habitat fragments share several common properties and are both also characterized by high conservational priority. A mechanistic knowledge of the biodiversity drivers in these systems is crucial, but correlational methods that have been historically dominated island studies, may be insufficient for this purpose. I will present my results on biodiversity drivers in oceanic archipelagos as well as in Estonian old-forest fragments, obtained by spatially explicit mechanistic agent-based simulation models.