Details of Award
NERC Reference : NE/E012175/2
Manipulating nutrient fluxes within a quantified food web: linking food web structure, ecological stoichiometry and biogeochemical processes
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Professor JI Jones, Queen Mary University of London, Sch of Biological and Chemical Sciences
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor G Woodward, Imperial College London, Life Sciences
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor M Trimmer, Queen Mary University of London, Sch of Biological & Behavioural Sciences
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr J Montoya, Spanish National Research Council CSIC, Institute of Marine Science ICM
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor A Hildrew, Queen Mary University of London, Sch of Biological & Behavioural Sciences
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr A Ibbotson, Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust, Research
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor J Grey, Lancaster University, Lancaster Environment Centre
- Science Area:
- Freshwater
- Overall Classification:
- Freshwater
- ENRIs:
- Natural Resource Management
- Biodiversity
- Science Topics:
- Biogeochemical Cycles
- Population Ecology
- Community Ecology
- Abstract:
- Humans have profound effects on the structure and functioning of biological communities, and these are often manifested at the scale of the food web. We propose to manipulate a well characterised quantified food web for which we have highly resolved data, by altering the availability and quality of the food at the base of the web. This complements the data we have already obtained on a 'top-down' manipulation of the same system where we introduced a new top predator. The proposed research will stimulate algal production in the steam by ameliorating light limitation thereby increasing the relative (and absolute) importance of autocthonous pathways in the food web. We will explore a range of responses across multiple levels of biological organisation, from population dynamics of individual species to ecosystem processes and whole stream metabolism. Further we will use these empirical data to inform and develop new theoretical models that link metabolic theory and ecological stoichiometry in food webs.
- NERC Reference:
- NE/E012175/2
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Directed (Research Programmes)
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- EHFI
This grant award has a total value of £144,543
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| DI - Other Costs | Indirect - Indirect Costs | DA - Estate Costs | DI - Staff | DI - T&S | DA - Other Directly Allocated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £9,626 | £47,735 | £30,009 | £5,887 | £6,950 | £44,336 |
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