Complex dynamics in spatially structured ecological systems

Project Information

Grant agreement ID: HPMF-CT-2002-01601

Project closed

Start date 1 January 2002

End date 31 December 2003

Funded under

• Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Improving the human research potential and the socio-economic knowledge base" (1998-2002)

Total cost € 147 800,00

EU contribution € 147 800,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM
Germany

Objective

In the current scientific quest to conserve biodiversity and maintain life quality on our planet, it has become vital to develop a theoretical understanding of ecological systems. Currently, however , theory of biocomplexity lags behind experimental and field studies and is a research field that is still in its initial phase of scientific development. In this interdisciplinary research project I will take advantage of modern mathematical modeling techniques from nonlinear dynamics to study natural ecological systems. The major theme will be the systematic investigation of complex dynamics and spatio-temporal synchronization in theory, models, real ecosystems and laboratory experiment. The main goals are:
(a) to develop and explore new realistic ecological models;
(b) to complete a theoretical study on complex behavior in spatially structured ecological models;
(c) to investigate the mechanisms leading to ecological synchronization;
( d) to characterize complex dynamics in real ecosystem case studies; and
(e) to experimentally verify the theoretical work in laboratory systems. Through this framework it will be passible to achieve a sophisticated study of the ecological consequences of complex dynamics: how different forms of collective behavior affect the risk of species extinction in spatially extended systems and the manner in which synchronization can be used as a control to manage ecosystem dynamics.

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.

• natural sciences › physical sciences › astronomy › planetary sciences › planets
• natural sciences › biological sciences › ecology › ecosystems
• natural sciences › mathematics › applied mathematics › mathematical model

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Programme(s)

• FP5-HUMAN POTENTIAL - Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Improving the human research potential and the socio-economic knowledge base" (1998-2002)

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Call for proposal

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Funding Scheme

RGI - Research grants (individual fellowships)

Coordinator

UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Am Neuen Palais 10, Haus 19 ; 14469 POTSDAM ; Germany
• Total cost: No data