Building your future: builder-building coevolution in animal architectures

该项目旨在重建动物结构如何随着时间的推移而变化，以及这如何影响其建造者的身体形状和功能。通过阐明建筑行为的生物学作用，该项目将有助于预测野生动物、生态系统和人类生活对不断变化的环境的长期反应。该项目期望通过在全球系统发育框架中比较动物建筑的结构，组装和机械性能与动物形态和性能来实现。这对于野生动物和景观管理的战略规划至关重要。

This project aims to reconstruct how animal architectures change throughout time and how this affects body shapes and functions of their builders. By clarifying the biological role of building behaviour this project will assist in predicting long term responses of wildlife, ecosystems and human life to a changing environment. The project expects to be achieved by comparing the structure, assembly and mechanical performance of animal architectures with animal morphology and performance in a global phylogenetic framework. This is critical for strategic planning of wildlife and landscape management.