Objetivo The goals of this proposal are to 1. Lay down the building blocks for a long-term mutually beneficial collaborative research program examining the causes and consequences of species adaptation to environmental change between Prof Bugnyar (U Vienna), Dr Healy (U St Andrews), Prof Güntürkün (Ruhr-U Bochum), and Dr Griffin (U Newcastle, AUS), 2. Create a synergistic team of three experienced scientists (Dr Griffin, Dr Bailey, Dr Schwab) and three world-leading researchers in avian cognition, behaviour, and neuroscience (Bugnyar, Healy, Güntürkün) that will exchange research expertise and pool research facilities to undertake the first geographically global exploration of the role of behavioural flexibility and brain anatomy in species adaptation to rampant worldwide urbanization, and 3. Position three exchange researchers (Griffin, Bailey, Schwab) as interdisciplinary experts capable of working at the interface between behaviour, neuroscience and urban ecology. We propose a program of studies and researcher exchanges to investigate the behaviour and brains of three highly successful invasive avian species across a rural to urban environmental gradient. We seek funding for secondments of two outgoing European researchers, and one incoming Australian researcher to collect scientific data on avian species local to the area, learn new skill sets, and build collaborative links by participating in ongoing collegial exchange and national conferences. By examining several avian species, in several planet-wide geographical locations, using several different measures of behavioural flexibility, and describing associated brain changes, we will gain the first firm evidence for, or against, the hypothesis that increasing behavioural flexibility and enlarged brain size predispose animals to surviving on an increasingly urbanized planet. The program will achieve knowledge transfer between research partners, and create new knowledge of significant theoretical and applied importance. Ámbito científico natural sciencesbiological sciencesneurobiologynatural sciencesbiological sciencesecologynatural sciencesphysical sciencesastronomyplanetary sciencesplanets Programa(s) FP7-PEOPLE - Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) Tema(s) FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IRSES - Marie Curie Action "International Research Staff Exchange Scheme" Convocatoria de propuestas FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IRSES Consulte otros proyectos de esta convocatoria Régimen de financiación MC-IRSES - International research staff exchange scheme (IRSES) Coordinador UNIVERSITAT WIEN Aportación de la UE € 12 600,00 Dirección UNIVERSITATSRING 1 1010 Wien Austria Ver en el mapa Región Ostösterreich Wien Wien Tipo de actividad Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Contacto administrativo Thomas Bugnyar (Prof.) Enlaces Contactar con la organización Opens in new window Sitio web Opens in new window Coste total Sin datos Participantes (2) Ordenar alfabéticamente Ordenar por aportación de la UE Ampliar todo Contraer todo THE UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS Reino Unido Aportación de la UE € 12 600,00 Dirección NORTH STREET 66 COLLEGE GATE KY16 9AJ St Andrews Ver en el mapa Región Scotland Eastern Scotland Clackmannanshire and Fife Tipo de actividad Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Contacto administrativo Trish Starrs (Ms.) Enlaces Contactar con la organización Opens in new window Sitio web Opens in new window Coste total Sin datos RUHR-UNIVERSITAET BOCHUM Alemania Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección UNIVERSITAETSSTRASSE 150 44801 Bochum Ver en el mapa Región Nordrhein-Westfalen Arnsberg Bochum, Kreisfreie Stadt Tipo de actividad Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Contacto administrativo Onur Güntürkün (Prof.) Enlaces Contactar con la organización Opens in new window Sitio web Opens in new window Coste total Sin datos
