H2020Индивидуална стипендия2021–2023

SMILE · The role of functional redundancy on stability mechanisms in multi-level ecosystem processes face to climatic extremes

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

Период: 2021-09-16 → 2023-09-15
Финансиране от ЕС: 160 932 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF

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Накратко на български

Функционалната излишност – наличието на различни видове с еднакви роли, но различни нужди, – се изследва като механизъм за устойчивост на екосистемите при екстремно време. Това помага да се разбере как природата запазва процесите и услугите си, които са важни за човечеството.

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Резултати накратко

The role of functional redundancy on stability mechanisms in multi-level ecosystem processes face to climatic extremes

The project, led by Dr. Felícia M. Fischer in collaboration with Dr. Francesco de Bello, addresses the critical questions arising from the current climatic and biodiversity crisis. Specifically, it investigates how natural ecosystems respond to extreme climatic events, focusing on the role of functional traits within biological communities and the concept of Functional Redundancy (FR). FR, defined as having multiple species with similar ecological functions but different environmental preferences, is explored for its potential to confer resistance and resilience to climatic extremes. With climate change altering temperature and precipitation patterns, understanding how ecosystems respond to extreme conditions becomes crucial. The project aims to identify the characteristics of communities that enable them to resist and recover from adversities, maintaining natural processes and providing ecosystem services. The study's significance lies in its contribution to the broader understanding of ecological stability and its implications for the maintenance of biodiversity, ecosystem functions, and services essential for humanity. The main objective is to conduct various tests on hypotheses related to biodiversity and FR mechanisms, particularly using the functional trait approach. The project is organized into four working packages: global dataset collection, greenhouse experimentation, communication activities, and training. The specific questions addressed include the impact of functional and phylogenetic relatedness on plant community dynamics, the exploration of community assembly rules through biodiversity experiments, the importance of FR in ecology and conservation, the design of better Trait-Based-Biodiversity-Experiments, and how the functional structure of plant communities affects ecosystem multifunctionality stability. Overall, the project seeks to generate scientific knowledge to address challenges posed by climate change and biodiversity loss, aligning with European strategies for science, technology, and innovation.

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

Цел на проекта

The present proposal, SMILE, aims to answer core questions on the current climatic and biodiversity crisis. Together with Dr. Francesco de Bello, a prominent authority on functional ecology and biodiversity, at the CIDE-CSIC, Spain, the applicant, Dr. Felícia M. Fischer, seeks to understand how biodiversity responds to extreme climatic events and how this response affects multiple ecosystem functions. For so, SMILE will explore the role of key aspects of the biological communities in terms of functional traits on the resistance and resilience of natural processes and the provision of multiple ecosystem functions connected to various ecosystem services. Two approaches, one using large-scale datasets of permanent plots, and another, within an extensive biodiversity experiment in controlled conditions, will allow testing the effect of functional redundancy within biological communities (i.e. multiple species with similar ecological functions but different environmental preferences) over the ecological stability (insurance hypothesis). SMILE will rely on cutting edge quantitative methods for accessing and testing the role biodiversity to buffer extreme climatic events. It will also count on a transdisciplinary approach to evaluate multifunctionality, involving the fields of climatology, community ecology, functional ecology, soil biology and biochemistry, carbon and water cycles, among others, with promising applications to conservation. For so, SMILE will involve a large multidisciplinary and multinational collaboration network. Moreover, the project is well aligned with the priorities and themes promoted by the Europe 2020 strategies and the Horizon 2020 program, as it can have important role for restoration of degraded lands, and their maintenance. Communication and dissemination will be, thus, a key priority of the project. The execution of SMILE will be key to enhance the applicant`s career, improving her theoretical, methodological, and overall operational skills.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS · MadridКоординаторИспания