Details of Award
NERC Reference : NE/B504314/1
Evolution and ecology of ageing in a long-lived mammal.
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Professor TH Clutton-Brock, University of Cambridge, Zoology
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor L Kruuk, University of Edinburgh, Sch of Biological Sciences
- Grant held at:
- University of Cambridge, Zoology
- Science Area:
- Terrestrial
- Overall Classification:
- Terrestrial
- ENRIs:
- Natural Resource Management
- Global Change
- Environmental Risks and Hazards
- Biodiversity
- Science Topics:
- Environment & Health
- Population Genetics/Evolution
- Population Ecology
- Behavioural Ecology
- Abstract:
- A knowledge of the rate at which animals age and the factors affecting the rate of ageing is of fundamental importance to our understanding both of the evolution of life-histories (Stearns 1992) and of population dynamics (Newton 1998; Gaillard et al. 2000). However, although age-related changes in reproductive performance or survival have been described in a range of naturally regulated populations of vertebrates (Gustafsson and Part 1990; Holmes and Austad 1995; Loison et al. 1990; Bronikowski et al. 2002; Packer et al. 1998), research into the extent to which genetic and environmental factors affect ageing rates has been largely confined to convenient laboratory models (including Drosophila, mice and rats), a small number of (mostly) short-lived monogamous birds, domestic mammals and man (Austad 1997). As a result, we know little about the factors responsible for variation in ageing rates in females and males in natural populations of long-lived animals, where they may differ qualitatively as well as quantitatively from those important in short-lived animals or in populations which are not resource-limited. This project will use detailed records of the individual life-histories of male and female red deer (together with associated genetic and environmental data) to investigate the factors affecting individual variation in ageing rates and will use these relationships to investigate the affects of selection on ageing rates; to test whether individuals increase their investment in successive reproductive attempts as their reproductive value declines; and to explore the effects of variation in ageing rates on population dynamics.
- NERC Reference:
- NE/B504314/1
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Standard Grants Pre FEC
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- Standard Grant
This grant award has a total value of £319,551
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - T&S | Total - Staff | Total - Other Costs | Total - Equipment | Total - Indirect Costs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| £16,036 | £168,968 | £52,419 | £4,404 | £77,725 |
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