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Heterogenität von Mustern und Prozessen entlang Abfolgen biologischer Invasionen

Antragsteller Professor Thorsten Reusch, Ph.D., seit 1/2014
Fachliche Zuordnung Ökologie und Biodiversität der Pflanzen und Ökosysteme
Evolution, Anthropologie
Ökologie und Biodiversität der Tiere und Ökosysteme, Organismische Interaktionen
Förderung Förderung von 2013 bis 2018
Projektkennung Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Projektnummer 243421602
 
Erstellungsjahr 2018

Zusammenfassung der Projektergebnisse

Biological invasions occur when barriers limiting species distributions are broken-down, allowing species to extend beyond their natural range areas. In the last century, rates of biological invasions severely increased due to human activities, and are major components of global changes, sometimes generating severe economical and societal disequilibrium. The ecological and evolutionary dynamics over the course of invasion remain to be elucidated in order to predict future patterns of invasion. PROBIS aimed at identifying relevant phenotypic and genetic traits that underpin a species ability to invade a new environment. PROBIS innovatively scaled down to the intraspecific level to identify these relevant biological traits. To do so, this pan-European project combined field surveys, genomic tools, large-scale semi-natural experiments and computational modeling on three model organisms (i.e. a fish, a parasite and a dragonfly) that have clear ecological and socio-economic impacts. The coupling of all these approaches allowed us to identify a suite of phenotypic traits, in each species, differing between recent and older populations, the mechanisms underlying these differences and their consequences on a large spatio-temporal scale. The ultimate goal of PROBIS has been to provide stakeholders with a predictive toolbox, using these biological parameters, to better forecast the success and rate of invasion of potential invasive species and develop mitigation strategies accordingly.

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