Every year, the UFZ's Graduate School Higrade organises a half-day internal conference at which all third-year PhD students present their current work, and this year it was Julia's turn...
Communicating models and their results can be difficult, especially to people who do not model themselves. That is, at least, what different modelers write in their publications (Grimm et al. 2006, Lorscheid et al. 2012). Complicated model designs, numerous parameters, advanced statistical methods, and non-linear relationships can indeed be very hard to explain...