Ecological diversification in urban habitats: A comparative approach across four ruderal Brassicaceae species (B01)

• Subject Area: Ecology and Biodiversity of Plants and Ecosystems
• Term: since 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 456082119

Plants growing in the city are exposed on a miniature scale to the challenges that global environmental change will impose. In this project, we will compare the genetic basis of urban adaptation in four species of the Brassicaceae family that grow in the city of Cologne. We will compare the environmental factors that promote their establishment and their growth in the city, quantify the level and distribution of genetic variation within and across habitats, test whether individual populations are locally adapted and determine the genes that promote population growth in specific environmental conditions.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 341: Plant Ecological Genetics
• Applicant Institution: Universität zu Köln
• Project Heads: Professorin Dr. Anja Linstädter, since 7/2022; Professorin Dr. Juliette de Meaux, since 7/2022