Katrina Zarrella

Ecological and Spatial Simulation of Darwin's Finches

Game theory is a mathematical formalism of differing strategies played against one another that is used to simulate political, social, and ecological complex systems. In my presentation, five different strategies interact over several hundred time-steps, their fitness is evaluated, and this fitness changes with increasing environmental variation. Both ecological and spatial simulations are used and I examine how these strategies and outcomes can be applied to a real-world ecological example: Darwin's finches.

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