| 项目编号: | 1354264
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| 项目名称: | OPUS: Predicting species' responses to environmental change |
| 作者: | Richard Gomulkiewicz
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| 承担单位: | Washington State University
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| 批准年: | 2013
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| 开始日期: | 2014-06-01
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| 结束日期: | 2017-05-31
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| 资助金额: | USD150001
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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: | species
; individual
; anticipated environmental change
; environmental change
; historical environmental change
; future change
; mobile species
; same species
; division
; future response
; same environmental change
; potential response
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| 英文摘要: | Individuals of a species can respond to changes in their environment by making adjustments in, for example, their development, metabolism, appearance, or behavior. Individuals of mobile species can also move to other locations with more suitable surroundings. Populations of the same species can respond to the same environmental changes by growing or shrinking in abundance, or by evolving adaptively if individuals vary genetically. It is important to consider all these possibilities simultaneously when trying to understand how species have responded to historical environmental changes and to forecast their potential responses to future changes. The objective of this project is to develop a mathematically-based theoretical framework combining all these biological processes that could be used along with data from field and laboratory studies to deduce past reactions and predict future responses of species to changed environments.
This project will result in a guidebook with an associated freely-available package of computer programming scripts that empirical researchers can use to design efficient and effective experimental or observational studies about how species respond to environmental change. These data and models will, in turn, provide wildlife managers, policy makers, and conservation biologists with process-based quantitative tools to forecast responses of species of interest to anticipated environmental changes. In addition, a new graduate course will be developed based on the material in the proposed book. The creation of illustrative examples for the guidebook based on an extensive marmot dataset will contribute to graduate training and foster new collaborations with researchers in the United States and abroad.
This award is being made jointly by three programs: 1) Evolutionary Processes in the Division of Environmental Biology (BIO Directorate), 2) Population and Community Ecology in the Division of Environmental Biology (BIO Directorate), and 3) Mathematical Biology in the Division of Mathematical Sciences (MPS Directorate). |
| 资源类型: | 项目
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| 标识符: | http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/96839
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| Appears in Collections: | 影响、适应和脆弱性
气候减缓与适应
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| Recommended Citation: | |
Richard Gomulkiewicz. OPUS: Predicting species' responses to environmental change. 2013-01-01.
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