Objetivo Individual body size can explain a broad array of ecological patterns, including relative abundances, spatial distributions, and diversity of species. Body size underlies the patterning of energy fluxes and responses to perturbations in food webs, and plays a crucial role in individual life histories as it affects many ecological processes including competition, predation, intraguild predation, and cannibalism.This project will be centred on a mutually illuminating use of theory and experiments. Its main objective is to develop and analyze size-structured models of population dynamics and life history evolution of predatory freshwater insects in small fishless water bodies, with emphasis on a strong mechanistic underpinning for all ecological and evolutionary processes accounted for in the models. I will also carry out laboratory experiments and collect data to be able to corectly parameterize the models, and test the applicability of probabilistic reaction norms to measure selected life history traits in predatory freshwater insects.The application of size-structured models and probabilistic reaction norms are novel in the context of freshwater insects, and both methods can improve our understanding of the ecological and evolutionary processes that shape the individual life histories and population dynamics of this important part of freshwater food webs. Ámbito científico humanitieshistory and archaeologyhistorynatural sciencesbiological sciencesevolutionary biologynatural sciencesbiological sciencesbiological behavioural sciencesethologybiological interactionsnatural sciencesbiological scienceszoologyentomology Palabras clave Aquatic ecology Entomology Fresh water ecosystems evolutionary ecology population dynamics 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) PEOPLE-2007-2-2.ERG - Marie Curie Action: "European Reintegration Grants" Convocatoria de propuestas FP7-PEOPLE-ERG-2008 Consulte otros proyectos de esta convocatoria Régimen de financiación MC-ERG - European Re-integration Grants (ERG) Coordinador BIOLOGICKE CENTRUM AKADEMIE VID CESKE REPUBLIKY VEREJNA VYZKUMNA INSTITUCE Aportación de la UE € 45 000,00 Dirección BRANISOVSKA 1160/31 370 05 Ceske Budejovice Chequia Ver en el mapa Región Česko Jihozápad Jihočeský kraj Tipo de actividad Research Organisations Contacto administrativo Vlastimil Krivan (Prof.) Enlaces Contactar con la organización Opens in new window Sitio web Opens in new window Coste total Sin datos
