H2020Индивидуална стипендия2018–2020

urbanbird · Social life in the city: how urbanization affects cooperation and competition among social birds

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2018-04-01 → 2020-03-31
Финансиране от ЕС: 177 599 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF-EF-RI

Линиите свързват координатора с партньорите.

Накратко на български

Урбанизацията в Нидерландия променя начина, по който социалните птици си сътрудничат или се конкурират за ресурси. Разбирането на тези промени помага да се предвидят ефектите от градската среда върху видовете и биоразнообразието.

Този кратък обзор е генериран от изкуствен интелект

Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.

Резултати накратко

Social life in the city: how urbanization affects cooperation and competition among social birds

The action Social life in the city: how urbanization affects cooperation and competition among social birds looks at how urbanization affects behaviour and population dynamics of birds in the Netherlands. Human induced environmental change like urbanization, involves a drastic change of the environment and will affect the abundance of resources and thus the costs and benefits of how individuals cooperate and compete for resources. However, how urbanization affects such social behaviour remains unknown. It is important to better understand this, since social behaviours are crucial for an individual’s fitness. Thus, factors affecting social behaviour will have large implications for the dynamics and persistence of populations, and improving knowledge on this topic will help to predict the effects ongoing urbanization will have on species and biodiversity. The aims of this project were to examine the impacts of urbanization on population dynamics and social behaviour of birds. In addition, a parallel goal of this reintegration fellowship was for the Fellow to re-enter the European academic system and develop skills required to initiate an independent research group.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

Urbanisation currently forms one of the most important threats to biodiversity. Urbanization involves a drastic change of the environment, which will require species to adapt. Studies have shown that animals in urban environments differ in their behaviour, morphology and physiology from those in rural environments. However, how these differences come about remains unclear. Individuals might be able to show plasticity in their behavioural response to the new environment. Alternatively, certain types of individuals might be more likely to move to cities, or certain individuals might be more successful there. Despite the attention on how urbanization has affected behavioural changes to the environment, the effect on intra-specific social behaviours has been neglected, despite its importance for fitness. Furthermore, the long-term consequences of urbanization for populations remain unknown. The proposed project aims to investigate the underlying mechanisms of changes in social behaviours and the long-term population consequences. I will use the house sparrow (Passer domesticus) as a model system, which although widespread in both urban and rural environments, has undergone extreme declines, particularly in European cities. Using a citizen science approach, combined with new experiments, the knowledge generated by this project will help predict the effects ongoing urbanization will have on species and biodiversity. During this interdisciplinary project I will exchange knowledge with experts in the field of conservation and applied ecology. The proposed fellowship will allow me to re-enter the European academic system and develop skills required to initiate my own effective research group following the project.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

STICHTING RADBOUD UNIVERSITEIT · NijmegenКоординаторНидерландия