Our work focuses on understanding predator-prey dynamics in a complex
landscape that is constantly changing due to forest growth and disturbances
such as wildfire or logging. Climate change is increasing the frequency and
severity of wildfires, causing additional stress to the forest ecosystem on top of
existing anthropogenic activity. We seek to understand how these...
We present a reaction–diffusion model describing the interactions among cells, nutrients, and growth factors, aimed at capturing the emergence of starvation-driven cell pattern formation, a phenomenon recently observed in laboratory experiments under nutrient-limited growth conditions. Experiments and modelling were developed in parallel, enabling progressively more targeted experimental...
Whether static, e.g. habitat destruction, or dynamic, e.g. environmental fluctuations, disturbance of a landscape has typically been expected to degrade its resident ecosystems. However, recent modelling studies \cite{Zhang2023, Zhang2025} have predicted that community biodiversity can oscillate, both rising and falling, as disturbance severity increases. Similar patterns have been found by...
Habitat fragmentation, driven by human activities, poses a major threat to biodiversity by isolating populations and disrupting ecological processes. Metapopulation models are essential for understanding these dynamics, but they often assume temporally homogeneous environments. This assumption overlooks the reality that abiotic and biotic factors, such as temperature or resource availability,...
Ecosystems all around the world are affected by disturbances. These disturbances can be natural (e.g., wildfires, floods, droughts, pest outbreaks, landslides), anthropogenic (e.g. agriculture and farming, forestry, urbanization, fishing, deforestation, global warming, pollution, introduction of alien invasive species), or a combination of both. They are known to affect life history traits...
