Details of Award
NERC Reference : NER/B/S/2003/00248
The spatial dynamics of an annual plant across clines in its sexual system.
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Professor J Pannell, University of Oxford, Plant Sciences
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor R Freckleton, University of Sheffield, School of Biosciences
- Grant held at:
- University of Oxford, Plant Sciences
- Science Area:
- Terrestrial
- Overall Classification:
- Terrestrial
- ENRIs:
- Global Change
- Biodiversity
- Science Topics:
- Survey & Monitoring
- Population Ecology
- Abstract:
- The metapopulation concept has been extremely influential in ecology and conservation biology. However, its importance in plants is uncertain - due largely to the paucity of demographic studies at the regional scale and to poor knowledge of seed-bank dynamics. Over three successive years, we will survey the occupancy and abundance, and study the seed bank, of populations of the annual herb Mercurialis annua across 5 independent clines in the species' sexual system. We will test the hypothesis that populations with an inbreeding sexual system occur in classic metapopulations, and that metapopulation dynamics are relaxed where outcrossing systems occur. We will use data to formulate demographic models which we will incorporate into models of sex allocation for subdivided populations with different regional dynamics.
- NERC Reference:
- NER/B/S/2003/00248
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Small Grants Pre FEC
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- Small Grants
This grant award has a total value of £31,022
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - T&S | Total - Staff | Total - Other Costs | Total - Indirect Costs |
|---|---|---|---|
| £7,991 | £13,343 | £3,551 | £6,137 |
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