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EU funding (€208,400): Adaptive plasticity meets unpredictability: how do organisms cope with changing environmental variability? Hor 20 Oct 2015 EU Research and Innovation programme "Horizon"
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Adaptive plasticity meets unpredictability: how do organisms cope with changing environmental variability?
Natural populations are continually exposed to environmental change and respond in the short-term via plastic mechanisms and over longer time periods by genetic adaptation. Both plastic and genetic responses to changes in the mean environment are well understood. However, less is known about the responses to changes in the variability and stochasticity of environmental parameters. Optimal phenotypes are known to depend on levels of environmental variability. This means that if levels of variability are predictable, plastic and/or genetic adaptations can be expected. However, both the levels of variability as well as their predictability may change over time and space. Understanding adaptive responses to such changes in the pattern of environmental variability (rather than mean values) represents a major frontier in ecology and evolution and is the main focus of this proposal.
Funded Companies:
| Company name | Funding amount |
| Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet Ntnu | €208,400 |
Source: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/658530
The filing refers to a past date, and does not necessarily reflect the current state. The latest known state is available on the following page: Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet Ntnu, Trondheim, Norway.
