RoLE-Model WishList Meta-ticket

[isaacovercast]

This is the todo list from the October 2019 RoLE model kick off meeting.

[isaacovercast]

— improving the meta community processes (considering different speciation/extinction models) etc

• Temporal heterogeneity (slow-downs) and or different rates across the tree
  — assessing the effect of the meta community processes on the output of MESS (simulation exercice moving metacommunity parameters)
  — applying MESS to the case of multiple local communities and improving code where needs be to make it efficient enough to scale up to multiple local communities
  — integrating interaction processes other than competition at the community scale

[isaacovercast]

Ideas that came out of discussions following my IBENS EEB section seminar:

• Predicting equilibrium state for empirical data that is estimated to be far from equilibrium, like if you look at the Tree data from the manu it is estimated to be at lambda = 0.4, but can we run the clock forward to predict what it would be at lambda=1?
• Implementing more disturbance-like turnover (removing many more than 1 individual per timestep)
• Using MESS for conservation/community restoration efforts (how many individuals, how many species, how much genetic diversity do you have to introduce to get successful reintroduction).

[ajrominger]

exciting ideas! predicting equilibrium trajectories is also something we hoped to do in the RoLE model grant, so that'll be great! the conservation implications seem super promising too!

[ajrominger]

one more thought on equilibrium: that's hopefully what we can test in Hawaii. if young substrate communities are far from equilibrium, we can project them into the future to see what their future states might look like. then we can actually compare that to the states of older substrate communities and see if the forecasted predictions actually line up with reality!

[isaacovercast]

Results of the role model annual meeting, which includes new development goals and ideas for papers to work toward.