Animal Space Use

This series of posts is an attempt to briefly summarize historically the conceptual development of the Parallel processing idea (PP) as a modelling framework to better understand the complex space use by animals. The endeavor started by a couple of enlightening Eureka moments, and swiftly split into two lines of approach. The challenge was to get the grips of the deeper process behind scale-free dispersion. This fascinating behaviour would in my view have to be coherently modelled along two lines of exploration, first from the perspective of spatio-temporal population dynamics and then from individual space use. PP was born during those early periods of confusion and frustration, and it has focused (some will say haunted) my research for more than 30 years. Picture: Spaced-out gregariousness in sycamore aphids Drepanosiphum platanoides under tree leaves in Oslo, Norway. Photo: AOG. At the population side it all started out with a couple of frustrating years exploring mathematica