| 项目编号: | 1701221
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| 项目名称: | DISSERTATION RESEARCH: King of the hill? How competitive interactions affect biogeographical pattern and species responses to environmental variability. |
| 作者: | Jennifer Rudgers
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| 承担单位: | University of New Mexico
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| 批准年: | 2017
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| 开始日期: | 2017-06-01
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| 结束日期: | 2019-05-31
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| 资助金额: | 19683
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| 资助来源: | US-NSF
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| 项目类别: | Standard Grant
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| 国家: | US
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| 语种: | 英语
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| 特色学科分类: | Biological Sciences - Environmental Biology
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| 英文关键词: | researcher
; alpine species
; research
; species
; species extinction
; project
; focal species population growth
; focal species
; research opportunity
; competitive interaction outcome
; species trait
; precipitation pattern
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| 英文摘要: | Plants are moving up mountainsides into cooler climates as temperatures have increased. An understudied consequence of this movement is that alpine species, which cannot move further up mountains, may become rarer because of more competition with the upward migrating species. Could this intensified competition be strong enough to cause species extinctions? This research will provide one of the few experimental tests of this scenario, using alpine plant communities of the southern Rocky Mountains, CO, USA. This project expands upon past work by coupling competition experiments with mathematical models to predict population growth into the future and to generalize the results to other ecosystems. This research will provide new insights for the management of alpine and other ecosystems under variable temperature and precipitation patterns, specifically for species important in wildlife management, recreation, and restoration. In addition, this project will provide research opportunities for undergraduate students and the public by utilizing the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory's Science Festival and Kids Nature Camp outreach programs.
The researchers have used niche models to inform an experiment that transplanted alpine species into the low elevation plant communities expected to encroach upslope. Results suggest that focal alpine species performance is reduced more by low elevation plant communities than by resident alpine communities. The researchers are combining demographic data from natural populations with field manipulations of competition to parameterize integral projection models. These models are aimed at long-term predictions of focal species population growth under experimental conditions to determine their viability in a competitive environment altered by increased temperatures. This project will generalize these results to a wider set of systems and species. The researchers will collect plant trait and environmental data on focal species and competing communities to parameterize a new trait-based model aimed at predicting competitive interaction outcomes from differences in species traits. By predicating the competitive environment on newly measured trait-environment relationships, this project will produce a priori predictions of plant performance in various physical and competitive environments. |
| 资源类型: | 项目
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| 标识符: | http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/90118
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| Appears in Collections: | 全球变化的国际研究计划
科学计划与规划
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Jennifer Rudgers. DISSERTATION RESEARCH: King of the hill? How competitive interactions affect biogeographical pattern and species responses to environmental variability.. 2017-01-01.
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