The new 3-D modelling technique provides insights about egg and clutch morphology, site taphonomy, and the reproductive behaviour of dinosaurs producing megaloolithid eggs.
In addition, the modelling effort provided insight into the probable atomic configurations of the amorphous structures allowing predictions of the average distance to the first and second nearest neighbours in the system.
Overall the models were found to have large predictive uncertainties, although the modelling process itself revealed insights into the habitat suitability of the species and identified key knowledge and data gaps for future monitoring, management and research.
In addition, statistical models can only provide phenomenological insights, whereas our modelling approach affords a mechanistic interpretation of the observed patterns.
Overall, our modelling framework provides new insights into how different plant-animal interactions respond to landscape fragmentation.
In conclusion, this modelling approach provided valuable insights into the life-cycle mechanisms and range expansion processes of S. alterniflora under the current conditions.
The results obtained regarding the invasion by H. sericea in our study area demonstrate the kind of insights a modelling approach such as ours can offer for the transboundary management of an invasive species.
