H2020Индивидуална стипендия2020–2022

SEASON · Species persistence in changing seasonal environments: A new holistic framework integrating demography and biotic interactions

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

Период: 2020-07-01 → 2022-06-30
Финансиране от ЕС: 172 932 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF-EF-ST

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Накратко на български

Връзката между размножаването на видовете и техните взаимодействия при промяна на сезоните се анализира чрез симулации и реални данни. Това помага да се разбере как глобалните промени застрашават биоразнообразието и как да се подобрят прогнозите за оцеляването на видовете.

Този кратък обзор е генериран от изкуствен интелект

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

Резултати накратко

Species persistence in changing seasonal environments: A new holistic framework integrating demography and biotic interactions

Most species show seasonal variation in survival and reproduction, which determines and is affected by biotic (intra- and interspecific) interactions. Such demography-biotic-interaction feedbacks, in turn, mediate community responses to seasonal patterns in environmental factors. Changing these seasonal patterns, which then results in adverse effects on the demography of interacting species, is one important way in which global environmental change alters biodiversity. However, as population and community responses to changes in seasonality are typically studied separately, we lack a mechanistic understanding of the processes that threaten the persistence of interacting species, posing a major challenge to biodiversity conservation. Robustly capturing some of the pathways through which global change affects populations may allow us to design robust alternative forecasting scenarios of outcomes under global change. The main aim of the MSCA project SEASON was to derive general principles of how feedbacks between demography and biotic interactions mediate species persistence and community dynamics under changes in the seasonality of environmental factors. To achieve this aim, SEASON consisted of two objectives: Objective 1: Develop a unified framework of species interactions under seasonality change – advance theoretical ecology through simulations and projections of multiple demography-biotic-interaction feedbacks Objective 2: Synthesize empirical patterns of species interactions under seasonality change – improve biodiversity conservation by evaluating/refining framework on empirical data to guide assessment of feedbacks

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

Цел на проекта

Most species show seasonal variation in survival and reproduction, which determines and is affected by biotic (intra- and interspecific) interactions. Such demography-biotic-interaction feedbacks, in turn, mediate community responses to seasonal patterns in environmental factors. Changing these seasonal patterns and thereby adversely affecting the demography of interacting species, is one important way in which global environmental change alters biodiversity. However, as population and community responses to changes in seasonality are typically studied separately, we lack a mechanistic understanding of the processes that threaten the persistence of interacting species, posing a major challenge to biodiversity conservation. SEASON aims to bridge this fundamental knowledge gap by linking demographic processes and biotic interactions under changes in the seasonality of environmental factors across time and space. Integrating theoretical and empirical analyses, the two main objectives of this project are to (i) develop an analytical framework which assesses how demography-biotic-interaction feedbacks mediate multi-species population responses to seasonality change; and (ii) apply the framework on empirical systems to synthesize novel information on the importance of the feedbacks. By developing an integrative framework to assess simultaneous responses of several species to seasonality, a key but understudied aspect of environmental change, this research will substantially contribute to global-change ecology. It will also assist researchers and managers in developing new strategies beyond single target populations or annual demographic censuses to mitigate global threats. As SEASON aims to develop a flexible tool that can be expanded in the future and relies on collaboration between two research institutes and several conservation initiatives, the MSCA fellowship will be critical in building a long-lasting research line and a global network of collaborators.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS · MadridКоординаторИспания