Details of Award
NERC Reference : NE/T008334/1
Effects of Climate-Change Associated Stressors on Fish Social Behaviours
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Dr S Killen, University of Glasgow, College of Medical, Veterinary, Life Sci
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr C J Torney, University of Glasgow, School of Mathematics & Statistics
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr K Ramesh, University of Glasgow, School of Engineering
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor C Ioannou, University of Bristol, Biological Sciences
- Grant held at:
- University of Glasgow, College of Medical, Veterinary, Life Sci
- Science Area:
- Atmospheric
- Freshwater
- Marine
- Overall Classification:
- Panel C
- ENRIs:
- Biodiversity
- Global Change
- Natural Resource Management
- Science Topics:
- Animal & human physiology
- Animal behaviour
- Climate & Climate Change
- Behavioural Ecology
- Abstract:
- Group living is key to foraging, predator-avoidance, migration, and reproduction in many animal species but has been mostly overlooked in the context of managing the consequences of environmental change. Fishes are frequently used as model taxa to study collective behaviour in animals, and the effects of environmental stressors on ectotherms. They occupy aquatic habitats across the globe, play key roles as both predators and prey, and display a variety of social behaviours. Recent studies by PI Killen have demonstrated that among-individual variation in energy metabolism and locomotor capacity are important to costs and benefits of group-living in fishes, and link behaviour of individual animals to group behaviour. Relationships between metabolism and social behaviour also suggest that temperature change and hypoxia - two consequences of climate change in aquatic environments - may have profound effects on group living. To date, work examining behavioural and physiological responses to climate change has focussed on isolated animals, without inquiry into how effects at the individual level may affect social behaviour. Conversely, how social dynamics feedback to influence phenotypes and responses to environmental change is also unknown. To address these issues, the proposed project will: (1) examine how temperature and hypoxia affect interplay between behaviour of individual animals and their social group; (2) investigate how temperature and hypoxia influence group formation and functioning; and (3) produce a robust movement model of group behaviour that can be applied to a range of environmental conditions and ecological contexts. By adopting innovative empirical and theoretical approaches and combining behaviour and physiology in the lab and field, this project will be the first to examine how thermal shifts and hypoxia brought on by climate change will affect social behaviour.
- NERC Reference:
- NE/T008334/1
- Grant Stage:
- Awaiting Completion
- Scheme:
- Standard Grant FEC
- Grant Status:
- Active
- Programme:
- Standard Grant
This grant award has a total value of £648,188
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| DI - Other Costs | Indirect - Indirect Costs | DA - Investigators | DA - Estate Costs | DI - Staff | DA - Other Directly Allocated | DI - T&S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £64,750 | £243,196 | £47,700 | £56,622 | £207,337 | £19,636 | £8,944 |
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