Thermal phenotypes and behavioural syndromes as predictors of resilience to climate change in European freshwater fish

Project description

A closer look at the changing behaviour of river fish

Fish, like many other species, are moving to higher latitudes to track their ‘climate niche’ due to global warming. However, fish in closed environments such as rivers have limited ability to track their climate niche since their limited movement between river catchments conditions their ‘behavioural thermoregulation’. However, little is known about how freshwater fish are changing their behaviour in rivers and how this makes fish populations resistant to the harmful effects of rising temperatures. The EU-funded THERMOS project will assess to what extent the behavioural thermoregulation of river fish is controlled by specific phenotypes within a pace-of-life syndrome that makes vulnerable populations resilient to climate change. The project will apply innovative methods to develop advanced predictive models to measure the resilience of vulnerable populations to global warming.

Field of science

• /natural sciences/biological sciences/ecology

Programme(s)

• H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility

Topic(s)

• MSCA-IF-2019 - Individual Fellowships

Call for proposal

H2020-MSCA-IF-2019
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Funding Scheme

MSCA-IF-EF-ST - Standard EF

Coordinator

BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY

Address

Fern Barrow Bournemouth University
BH12 5BB Poole
United Kingdom

Activity type

Higher or Secondary Education Establishments

EU contribution

€ 212 933,76