Trait dynamics in interacting populations

• Grant number: 12/05949-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: September 01, 2012
• End date: August 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Ecology - Theoretical Ecology
• Principal Investigator: Roberto André Kraenkel
• Grantee: Renato Mendes Coutinho
• Supervisor: Ursula Gaedke
• Host Institution: Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de São Paulo. São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: University of Potsdam, Germany
• Associated to the scholarship: 10/09464-1 - Structured populations dynamics, BP.DR

Abstract

This project explores the dynamics of ecological communities in which interactions between different species affect, and are affected by, the internal variation of individual traits in each population.The proposal is to study the mathematical framework of this kind of system, where biological evolution may play a role in dynamics occurringin ecological time, and build upon it to deepen our understanding of how species interactions and trait dynamics can influence ecological communitystructure. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

COUTINHO, RENATO MENDES; KLAUSCHIES, TONI; GAEDKE, URSULA. Bimodal trait distributions with large variances question the reliability of trait-based aggregate models. Theoretical Ecology, v. 9, n. 4, p. 389-408, DEC 2016. (12/05949-6)