Details of Award
NERC Reference : NER/M/S/2001/00080
Positive plant interactions and environmental severity: a test of current theory.
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Dr RW Brooker, NERC CEH (Up to 30.11.2019), NERC CEH - Banchory
- Grant held at:
- NERC CEH (Up to 30.11.2019), NERC CEH - Banchory
- Science Area:
- Terrestrial
- Overall Classification:
- Terrestrial
- ENRIs:
- Global Change
- Biodiversity
- Science Topics:
- Conservation Ecology
- Community Ecology
- Climate & Climate Change
- Abstract:
- Direct positive plant interactions (PPIs) have been recognised as key community-structuring processes. We must now examine the relationship between the importance for plant success of PPIs, competition and the severity of the abiotic environment. I predict that increased severity leads to 1) decreased importance of competition 2) increased importance of PPIs, 3) change from a net negative toward a net positive interaction between neighbouring plants. I will test these predictions using Pinus sylvestris saplings and seedlings in a heather matrix across an altitudinal severity gradient. Manipulation of heather neighbours, uniquely, enables quantification of the separate effects of competition, PPIs, and the abiotic environment with changing severity, and examination of their interaction in determining the overall nature of the relationship between neighbours.
- NERC Reference:
- NER/M/S/2001/00080
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- New Investigators Pre FEC
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- New Investigators
This grant award has a total value of £49,246
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - T&S | Total - Staff | Total - Other Costs | Total - Indirect Costs | Total - Equipment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| £4,301 | £23,277 | £6,161 | £10,708 | £4,800 |
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