Details of Award
NERC Reference : NER/B/S/2002/00311
Reproductive allocation decisions: multivariate trade off planes, fitness and population consequences.
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Professor TG Benton, University of Stirling, Biological and Environmental Sciences
- Grant held at:
- University of Stirling, Biological and Environmental Sciences
- Science Area:
- Terrestrial
- Overall Classification:
- Terrestrial
- ENRIs:
- Natural Resource Management
- Global Change
- Biodiversity
- Science Topics:
- Population Genetics/Evolution
- Population Ecology
- Behavioural Ecology
- Abstract:
- Adult females have to decide how much of their available nutrients to invest in themselves, how many offspring to invest in and how much to invest in each one. These traits are likely to be inter-related and form a trade-off surface, with the organism's position on the trade-off surface depending on its age and availability of resources. We aim to describe the phenotypic trade-off surface empirically by assessing the reproductive decisions (offspring quality and quantity) in relationship to parental age and resources available (food quality and quantity). The data will give understanding of physiological mechanisms of the different components traded-off, the ability to estimate fitness consequences of decisions (for parents and offspring), and hence their adaptive nature, and the population consequences (such as whether maternal effects can destabilise dynamics).
- NERC Reference:
- NER/B/S/2002/00311
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Small Grants Pre FEC
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- Small Grants
This grant award has a total value of £30,304
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - Staff | Total - T&S | Total - Other Costs | Total - Indirect Costs |
|---|---|---|---|
| £18,081 | £346 | £3,559 | £8,317 |
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