Refined model for reliable prediction of invasion dynamics
Thursday, January 16, 2014 - 15:30
in Biology & Nature
The question how rapidly animals, plants or microorganisms can colonize new territories is not only of interest to ecologists – the spread of invasive species can also have economic consequences, e.g. in the agricultural sector. Scientists have now refined an existing model and, for the first time, used laboratory experiments to validate its ability to predict biological invasion dynamics.