Project description
Origins of the Black Sea’s biodiversity and its viability under global warming
In recent years, human activity has rapidly accelerated biodiversity loss, including the vital goods and services ecosystems provide to sustain well-being as well as future economic and social development. Environmentalists rank the Black Sea basin among the world's top priority places for conservation. The EU-funded DarkLife project aims to improve existing knowledge on the origins and diversification of terrestrial invertebrates in this unique region. In tackling this goal, the project will combine integrative taxonomic research with high-throughput DNA sequencing techniques and state of the species distribution modelling tools, helping to reveal the factors and mechanisms that shaped the Black Sea basin's unique biodiversity and to predict its future viability under a global warming scenario.
Objective
In the last years, human activity has rapidly accelerated the rate of biodiversity loss, compromising the vital goods and services ecosystems provide to sustain well-being, and future economic and social development. The Black Sea Basin is listed among the WWF’s “top priority places” for conservation. Its unique biota, however, is serious threatened by illegal logging, intensive agriculture and unsustainable coastal development. Although the Black Sea Basin biodiversity is reasonably well characterised, many questions about its origin and relevance for present-day European natural heritage remain. The The DarkLife project aims at improving our current knowledge on the origins and diversification of terrestrial invertebrates in the Black Sea basin – a neglected refuge for survival of species during Quaternary glaciations and an important centre of origin and subsequent dispersal of a unique component of European wildlife. To tackle this ambitious goal, I will combine integrative taxonomic research with high-throughput DNA sequencing (HTS) techniques and state of the species distribution modelling (SDM) tools. I will use spiders as a model system organism. I will gain expertise on modern systematic and evolutionary biology research through training in two leading European institutions, the University of Barcelona, the top ranked university in Spain, and the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F) in Germany. The results of the DarkLife project will help me to reveal the factors and mechanisms that shaped the Black Sea basin unique biodiversity melting pot, unravel its origins and dynamics and, more importantly, predict how global warming may affect its future viability. The training provided by the MSC will help me to secure a scientific position in Bulgaria and become an active player in the development of future conservation policies and sustainability programs my home country.
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- natural sciences biological sciences evolutionary biology
- natural sciences biological sciences ecology ecosystems
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences physical geography glaciology
- natural sciences biological sciences zoology invertebrate zoology
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Programme(s)
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H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
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H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) H2020-MSCA-IF-2019
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08007 BARCELONA
Spain
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