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SUMMARY:A joint species modelling approach to understand animal-plant inte
 ractions - Juan Manuel Morales (University of Glasgow)
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DESCRIPTION:Many plant species rely on fruit-eating animals for seed dispe
 rsal. To model this animal-plant interaction\, we need a way to keep track
  of the position on the animal through time and a clock for how long seeds
  travel with it. Estimating the necessary parameters in systems where seve
 ral species are involved is challenging as we may not have enough data for
  all of them. We developed a joint species modelling approach where specie
 s-level parameters including movement\, habitat preference\, and foraging\
 , are estimated in a hierarchical way with expected values derived from sp
 ecies traits and potentially informed by phylogenetic relationships. Once 
 the parameters are estimated it is possible to explore how species interac
 tion networks emerge from individual movement and foraging decisions.
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