Fig. 3. Screen display of Blue-breasted Fairy-wren study landscape showing the simulation in progress. The landscape is composed of native vegetation and agricultural land. Dispersals occur between pairs of patches, with each patch representing an actual wren breeding territory. The yellow trail represents the path taken during one iteration of a rule-based random-type walk, from a designated origin (blue) to a designated target (purple) with a 10,000-step "time" limit. After 100 iterations for this patch pair, the program records to a file the number of times the disperser d reached the target, the median distance traveled during successful dispersals (iterations), and the straight-line distance between origin and target.

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