Agent-Based Modelling for Invasive Plant Management · NEOBIOTA 2026
Abstract
Oral presentation on integrating roadside monitoring and spatially explicit agent-based modelling to explore long-term management of Ailanthus altissima in Mediterranean road corridors.
At NEOBIOTA 2026 in Brussels, I presented first-author doctoral research on the use of roadside monitoring and spatially explicit agent-based modelling to explore long-term management strategies for Ailanthus altissima in Mediterranean road corridors.
The work examines how intervention logic, treatment location and residual invasion patterns influence long-term outcomes, with the aim of making modelling results more useful for management decisions.
Jessica Bernal
Environmental Consultant & PhD Researcher
Biologist and environmental consultant working across biodiversity, environmental planning, GIS and spatial/ecological modelling, ecosystem services, and environmental governance.