Lacey Hughey 1 st year PhD student Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology McCauley Lab
What are the general mechanisms that control large ‐ scale patterns of self ‐ organization in large mammals?
What is the ecological function of observed aggregations?
Can we predict how environmental change will affect self ‐ organization of aggregating organisms?
Migrating wildebeest herds in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem
Use historical satellite imagery to identify landscape ‐ level patterns of aggregation in wildebeest herds
Manually georeference individuals
Classify landscape variables from satellite imagery and existing databases
Analyze geometries and distributions in relation to landscape features Risk from anthropogenic and predator sources Distribution of high quality food resources Distribution of water resources
Standardize data collection by commissioning current satellite imagery of wildebeest herds Develop citizen ‐ science based platform for manual classification of individuals Consider questions of scale Build predictive models to determine how environmental change will affect self ‐ organization patterns of wildebeest
lacey.hughey@gmail.com
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