The dynamics of insect biodiversity in novel British landscapes

英国新景观中昆虫生物多样性的动态

• 批准号: 2434891
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of York
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2434891
• 关键词: dynamics; insect; biodiversity; novel; British

In this PhD project, you will use CEH, RHS and other databases to quantify toestablishment rates of insects at different spatial scales (from local communitiesto the whole country), and over different lengths of time. These rates will becompared with rates of extinction, investigating the circumstances under whichoverall diversity is declining or increasing. You will also use a combination ofyour own fieldwork (including at RHS gardens) and citizen science projects(gathering feedback from gardeners and others), and further analysis of existingdata, to examine the dynamics of particular insect colonists. This will allow youto analyse rates of distribution change since establishment in Britain, geographictrends in the abundances of invaders, and the relative contributions of climate,human-mediated dispersal (including the horticultural trade), and novelenvironments (habitat change, habitat heterogeneity, horticultural plantingsand naturalised plants) to the establishment of species.

在这个博士项目中，您将使用CEH，RHS和其他数据库来量化昆虫在不同空间尺度（从当地社区到整个国家）和不同时间长度的建立率。这些比率将与灭绝的比率相结合，调查所有多样性下降或增加的情况。您还将使用自己的实地考察（包括在RHS花园）和公民科学项目（收集园丁和其他人的反馈）的组合，以及对现有数据的进一步分析，以检查特定昆虫殖民者的动态。这将允许你分析自英国建立以来的分布变化率，入侵者丰度的地理趋势，以及气候，人为传播（包括园艺贸易）和新环境（栖息地变化，栖息地异质性，园艺种植和归化植物）对物种建立的相对贡献。