Project

Evolutionary ecology of two arthropods in populations at range expanding margins

Code
3G061011
Duration
01 January 2011 → 31 December 2014
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Research disciplines
  • Natural sciences
    • Animal biology
Keywords
individual based modelling genomics eco-evolutionary dynamics mesocoms experimental Tetranychus urticae climate change
 
Project description

Climate change is inducing significant shifts in species' ranges. At margins of these expanding ranges, altered environmental conditions induce strong selection pressures on life history traits which in turn largely impact on ecological processes. These will be empirically studied under mesocosm conditions and by spatially will be studies by genomics tools.