Life history responses to habitat heterogeneity and implications for conservation

    Project: Research

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    A key challenge for environmental research is to identify the properties of landscapes critical for effective biodiversity conservation. Recent theory predicts major consequences of life-history responses to environmental variation for the dynamics and viability of animal populations. However, the underlying individual-level physiological and behavioural responses remain undescribed. We will use multi-disciplinary analyses of long-term population data to quantify for the first time these key processes and to empirically test ecological population models. Our findings will lead to a major shift in the understanding of population ecology and will better integrate land use for natural resource management with biodiversity conservation.
    StatusFinished
    Effective start/end date9/02/098/02/12

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