Cara A Gallagher

@caragallagher.bsky.social

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Human girl - Ecomodeller - Tenure Track Researcher @aarhusuni.bsky.social - Energetics, behavior, & agent-based modelling ⚡🐾🖥️ - Graphic art enthusiast 🖌️ - Editor @ibe.pensoft.net & Movement Ecology

Flyer describing the Topical Collection, with an image of a cheetah and journal information. Full details in the link.
Illustrated figure of empirical examples of where animal energetics can be linked to decisions related to A) why move, B) how to move, and C) when and where to move.
Triangle of links between the processes, highlighting their general interactions.
Graphical abstract illustrating four recommendations for ecological modeling with aquatic animals. Be interdisciplinary and across levels: Includes icons for population biology (a bar chart of age structure) and behavioral ecology (a pie chart showing habitat use), plus a zoomed-in illustration of individual porpoises within a group. Use mechanistic modeling instead of statistics as a conceptual framework: A curved line plot shows respiration increasing with temperature, with data points color-coded by temperature and a shaded area indicating stressful conditions. Emphasize realism over precision: Shows a fish in a naturalistic habitat with plants and conspecifics, contrasted with a lone fish in a bare tank. Include stressful conditions: Reiterated through both the curved plot and a separate graph with three treatments, where respiration increases across treatments and with temperature, with the highest temperature range shaded in red.
Gif showing output of the InSTREAM v7 agent-based trout model developed by Railsback & Harvey