AQUAMOD
Modelling individual life histories and population dynamics of predatory aquatic insects: the role of body size
| Coordinatore | "Biologicke centrum AV CR, v. v. i."
Organization address
address: Branisovska 31 contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | Czech Republic [CZ] |
| Totale costo | 45˙000 € |
| EC contributo | 45˙000 € |
| Programma | FP7-PEOPLE
Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) |
| Code Call | FP7-PEOPLE-ERG-2008 |
| Funding Scheme | MC-ERG |
| Anno di inizio | 2009 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2009-09-07 - 2013-05-16 |
Partecipanti
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"Biologicke centrum AV CR, v. v. i."
Organization address
address: Branisovska 31 contact info |
CZ (CESKE BUDEJOVICE) | coordinator | 45˙000.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'Individual body size can explain a broad array of ecological patterns, including relative abundances, spatial distributions, and diversity of species. Body size underlies the patterning of energy fluxes and responses to perturbations in food webs, and plays a crucial role in individual life histories as it affects many ecological processes including competition, predation, intraguild predation, and cannibalism.
This project will be centred on a mutually illuminating use of theory and experiments. Its main objective is to develop and analyze size-structured models of population dynamics and life history evolution of predatory freshwater insects in small fishless water bodies, with emphasis on a strong mechanistic underpinning for all ecological and evolutionary processes accounted for in the models. I will also carry out laboratory experiments and collect data to be able to corectly parameterize the models, and test the applicability of probabilistic reaction norms to measure selected life history traits in predatory freshwater insects.
The application of size-structured models and probabilistic reaction norms are novel in the context of freshwater insects, and both methods can improve our understanding of the ecological and evolutionary processes that shape the individual life histories and population dynamics of this important part of freshwater food webs.'
Introduzione (Teaser)
Ecologists studied predatory insects in small bodies of standing water to understand how body size affects individuals and populations in freshwater food webs. Individual body size can help explain the abundance, distribution and diversity of species; it also influences competition and predation, and how ecosystems respond to disturbance.