Project description
How passerines adapt to thermal changes
Quantifying environmental changes remains a challenge, particularly as urbanisation continues to affect species’ behaviour and distribution. The adaptation of endotherms, such as birds, to thermal stress is still not fully understood. With the support of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the HotPasserine project will investigate the impact of thermal stress on the physiology and life history of organisms, with a focus on the great tit. Specifically, it will examine how thermal stress affects metabolic rates, mitochondrial function, ageing markers, stress responses, and the expression of heat shock proteins (Hsp). The findings will shed light on how individuals physiologically respond to warming temperatures, potentially revealing mechanisms that link thermal changes to long-term impacts on life history.
Objective
Our ability to quantify and predict the magnitude of environmental global changes effects represents one of the major challenges of the 21st century. These changes are characterised by a a gradual increase of ambient temperature through time, but also leading to an increased frequency of climate anomalies, such as heat waves. Habitat urbanisation, in particular, is a key driver of the increase of ambient temperature. These temperature changes can drastically modify the phenology of species, their geographic distribution, food webs, interspecific interactions, but also life history trajectories, behaviour and physiology of individuals. Yet endotherms capacities to adapt to thermal stress remain poorly understood. The aim of this project is to evaluate the harmful repercussions of thermal stress on the physiology of organisms, and on their life history trajectories (reproduction and survival). Using a multidisciplinary and integrative approach, I plan to conduct two experiments on Great tits to assess the effects of thermal stress on different molecular and physiological mechanisms (metabolic rates, mitochondrial function, markers of ageing, stress, Hsp expression) by manipulating temperature (increase, decrease, mis-match) under common garden conditions, during development and growth period and follow various life history traits such as growth and survival patterns. This project will provide exceptional insights to characterise variation of individuals’ life history trajectories and physiological responses to thermal stress and unusually warm temperatures; such results will be key to pinpoint the mechanisms linking thermal changes to any potential effects on life-history trajectories, which is crucial to monitor organisms’ responses to climate change. We hope that this work will help to assess the fitness prospects of wild animals and potentially to predict extinction risks of animal populations in the context of global changes.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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75794 Paris
France
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