Cel 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. Dziedzina nauki natural sciencesbiological sciencesneurobiologynatural sciencesbiological sciencesecologynatural sciencesphysical sciencesastronomyplanetary sciencesplanets Program(-y) FP7-PEOPLE - Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) Temat(-y) FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IRSES - Marie Curie Action "International Research Staff Exchange Scheme" Zaproszenie do składania wniosków FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IRSES Zobacz inne projekty w ramach tego zaproszenia System finansowania MC-IRSES - International research staff exchange scheme (IRSES) Koordynator UNIVERSITAT WIEN Wkład UE € 12 600,00 Adres UNIVERSITATSRING 1 1010 Wien Austria Zobacz na mapie Region Ostösterreich Wien Wien Rodzaj działalności Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Kontakt administracyjny Thomas Bugnyar (Prof.) Linki Kontakt z organizacją Opens in new window Strona internetowa Opens in new window Koszt całkowity Brak danych Uczestnicy (2) Sortuj alfabetycznie Sortuj według wkładu UE Rozwiń wszystko Zwiń wszystko THE UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS Zjednoczone Królestwo Wkład UE € 12 600,00 Adres NORTH STREET 66 COLLEGE GATE KY16 9AJ St Andrews Zobacz na mapie Region Scotland Eastern Scotland Clackmannanshire and Fife Rodzaj działalności Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Kontakt administracyjny Trish Starrs (Ms.) Linki Kontakt z organizacją Opens in new window Strona internetowa Opens in new window Koszt całkowity Brak danych RUHR-UNIVERSITAET BOCHUM Niemcy Wkład UE Brak danych Adres UNIVERSITAETSSTRASSE 150 44801 Bochum Zobacz na mapie Region Nordrhein-Westfalen Arnsberg Bochum, Kreisfreie Stadt Rodzaj działalności Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Kontakt administracyjny Onur Güntürkün (Prof.) Linki Kontakt z organizacją Opens in new window Strona internetowa Opens in new window Koszt całkowity Brak danych
