Objective
Plants can respond to herbivory by allocating resources to either chemical defence or regrowtb foliage. Evergreen Mediterranean woody plants are associated with nutrient-poor habitats, where biomass lost to herbivory is difficult to replace because ot nutrient deficiency, favouring plants with high levels of chemical defences. The study, focused on plant-deer interactions in Mediterranean ecosystems, will test the hypothesis that plant responses to herbivory play a key role in structuring the vegetation in these communities. The results from a combination of field and laboratory experiments, integrated with data already collected in the study area and a GIS vegetation map, will be used to produce a predictive mathematical model of the impacts of deer browsing on the plant community in different habitat types and seasons. This model, will be a valuable tool for the management of both ungulate and plant communities in Mediterranean ecosystems, which are little-studied, but of high conservation value.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences physical geography cartography geographic information systems
- natural sciences mathematics applied mathematics mathematical model
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Coordinator
AB31 4BY Aberdeen
United Kingdom
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