📋 Tender Overview
Integrated Niche Theory: Linking Environmental, Compositional And Functional Change On Coral Reefs
A Closer Look At Coral Colonies To Explore Niche Constructionarchitectural Settings And Designs Can Be Modified Physical Environments That Meet Human Needs. The Process By Which Humans Or Any Organism Alters Its Environment Is Known As Niche Construction. The Erc-Funded Coralint Project Will Focus On Coral Reefs To Explore The Ability To Predict Spatio-Temporal Change In Biodiversity And The Consequences Of This Change For Ecosystem Function. It Will Develop An Integrated Niche Theory Linking Three Niche Concepts: Grinnell’S Niche (What A Species Needs), Elton’S Niche (What A Species Does) And Niche Construction (How Species Function Changes The Environment). The Key To This Lies In How Species Are Sorted Along Each Of The Niche Axes. The Project Will Produce 3D Maps Following More Than 100 000 Coral Colonies Through Time.
Funded Under
European Research Council (Erc)
Total Cost
€ 1 999 995,00
Eu Contribution
€ 1 999 995,00
Coordinated By
Faculdade De Ciencias Da Universidade De Lisboa
Portugal
