Details of Award
NERC Reference : NER/B/S/2002/00239
Climate change and competitive interactions: models built on evidence from 40 years of change in intertidal barnacle populations.
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Professor M Burrows, Scottish Association For Marine Science, Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor S Hawkins, University of Southampton, Sch of Ocean and Earth Science
- Science Area:
- Marine
- Overall Classification:
- Marine
- ENRIs:
- Global Change
- Natural Resource Management
- Biodiversity
- Science Topics:
- Population Ecology
- Community Ecology
- Climate & Climate Change
- Abstract:
- The effects of climate change in a dynamic competitive interaction between two or more species can be bought about either as direct responses of species to change or indirectly through effects on competing species. Intertidal barnacles are ideal model organisms to test these alternative causal mechanisms, being easily censused and directly competing for space. Single- and multi- species models will be developed for barnacles in SW England to determine whether direct or indirect mechanisms better predict responses to change. The models will include functions for space-limitation, environmental influence and, in the latter models, functions for interspecific competition. Historical data from a network of sites collected over a 40-year period will be used to develop and test the models.
- NERC Reference:
- NER/B/S/2002/00239
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Small Grants Pre FEC
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- Small Grants
This grant award has a total value of £29,452
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - T&S | Total - Staff | Total - Other Costs | Total - Indirect Costs |
|---|---|---|---|
| £1,239 | £18,368 | £1,397 | £8,449 |
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