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Project

Mechanisms and constraints for insect conservation in calcareous grasslands

Outputs and Outcomes

Code

01SF0511

Duration

01 January 2012 → 31 December 2012

Funding

Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund

Promotor

Dries Bonte

Fellow

Catharina van Noordwijk

Research disciplines

Natural sciences
- Animal biology

Keywords

modelling traits-based ecology conservation

Project description

Central to this PhD project is the question how to identify key factors explaining the species composition. I will apply trait-based approaches and life-history strategy approaches to explore and and gain fundamental understanding of how species-environment relationships can be used to predict insect responses to fragmentation of chalck grasslands.

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