Sabbatical Fellows at NIMBioS in 2010
NIMBioS supports several Sabbatical Fellows each year. These individuals come to NIMBioS for a few months to a year with the length of stay determined by the objectives of the proposed project.
Brian Beckage (Plant Biology, Univ. of Vermont)
Project Title: Using models to investigate patterns, process and climate change in savannas
Brian Beckage focuses on dynamics of forests, including disturbance and dynamics in savanna communities, climate change and ecological communities, tree invasions, and forest diversity.
Sabbatical Dates: January - August 2010
Summary report
Publication:
Beckage B, Gross L, Kauffman S. 2011. The limits to prediction in
ecological systems. Ecosphere: 2(11):125. doi: 10.1890/ES11-00211.1
[online]
Vlastimil Krivan
(Mathematics and Biomathematics, Univ. of South Bohemia, Czech Republic; Theoretical Ecology, Biology Research Center, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
Project Title: Population games
Vlastimil Krivan uses game theory to study the links between animal behavior, population dynamics and evolutionary processes with respect to biodiversity.
Sabbatical Dates: August - December 2010
Summary report
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