Understanding the links between animal sexual traits and environmental change

了解动物性特征与环境变化之间的联系

• 批准号: 2884019
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Sheffield
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2884019
• 关键词: Understanding; links; between; animal; sexual

Humans have brought unprecedented changes to environments worldwide. A major priority for conservation is to understand how organisms will respond to environmental change, both in terms of the vulnerability of species to extinction and how populations may evolve when faced with novel pressures.Species' traits have long been at the forefront of efforts to understand population responses to environmental change, with existing research focusing on the importance of biogeographic and ecological factors, such as range size and habitat breadth. However, a key question is understanding the interactions between environmental change and species' sexual characteristics. There are strong expectations that traits related to mate choice, sexual signalling, and reproduction may affect species' vulnerability to extinction and/or evolutionary responses to novel environmental conditions.The aim of this PhD is to understand the relationships between animal sexual traits and environmental change, and to shed light on the factors influencing extinction risk and the contemporary evolution of species' sexual traits.

人类给全球环境带来了前所未有的变化。保护的一个主要优先事项是了解生物如何应对环境变化，包括物种灭绝的脆弱性以及种群在面临新压力时如何进化。物种的特征一直是理解种群对环境变化的反应的最前沿，现有的研究集中在地理和生态因素的重要性，例如范围大小和生境宽度。然而，一个关键问题是了解环境变化和物种性别特征之间的相互作用。有强烈的期望，性状相关的配偶选择，性信号，和繁殖可能会影响物种的脆弱性灭绝和/或新的环境条件下的进化反应。这个博士学位的目的是了解动物的性特征和环境变化之间的关系，并阐明影响灭绝风险的因素和物种的性特征的当代进化。