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NERC Reference : NE/B500690/3

Flow-mediated responses to environmental change in suspension feeding animals.

Fellowship Award

Fellow:
Professor S Humphries, University of Hull, Biological Sciences
Science Area:
Marine
Freshwater
Overall Classification:
Marine
ENRIs:
Natural Resource Management
Global Change
Biodiversity
Science Topics:
Environmental Physiology
Hydrological Processes
Community Ecology
Climate & Climate Change
Abstract:
Suspension feeding animas are ubiquitous in aquatic habitats and exert major effects on aquatic ecosystems. This interdisciplinary project will use hydrodynamic theory as an explanatory tool to predict how organism size and the physical properties of water, such as temperature, may influence feeding by this key functional group in situations not addressed by current theory. The project involves integrating both experiment and modelling at the interface between ecology, engineering, and physics. Suspension feeding represents convergence in feeding structures and mode on a massive scale across almost all phyla, convergence that we are currently unable to explain because we lack knowledge of the basic physics involved in the feeding process.
Period of Award:
1 Jan 2009 - 31 Aug 2009
Value:
£36,085
Authorised funds only
NERC Reference:
NE/B500690/3
Grant Stage:
Completed
Scheme:
Advanced Fellow
Grant Status:
Closed
Programme:
Advanced Fellow

This fellowship award has a total value of £36,085  

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FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)

Total - T&STotal - StaffTotal - Other Costs
£702£32,113£3,270

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