Andrew added a paper
Andrew started following the work of Hanifeh Khayyeri, The University of Sheffield, Mechanical Engineering.
Andrew started following the work of Rory Flood, Queen's University Belfast, Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology.
Andrew Some fun new projects starting up in my group at the moment: ecosystem stability, community patterns and isotopes, social niche construction & vulture foraging from a conservation perspective
Faculty Member, School of Natural Sciences
Trinity College Dublin, Trinity Centre for Biodiversity Research
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My research interests lie in understanding ecological systems or processes from an evolutionary perspective which I tend to approach using computational / mathematical models. I am most interested in understanding the underyling mechanisms and processes that result in complex biological patterns. Much of my current research focuses on understanding interactions among individual animals living in close proximity. These situations are well suited to analysis and simulation in computer models where each individual animal can be represented as an automaton which interacts with its local neighbours or physico-chemical environment according to some simple set of rules. These rules can be manipulated to better understand how group level patterns and behaviours are underpinned by the behaviour of individual animals. My interests also extend to community ecology (where functional groups replace individual animals) and the emergence of spatio-temporal patterns in ecological and environmental systems.
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