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.

人类给全世界的环境带来了前所未有的变化。保护的首要任务是了解生物体如何应对环境变化，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。物种特征长期以来一直处于理解努力的最前沿。人口对环境变化的反应，现有研究重点关注生物地理和生态因素的重要性，例如范围大小和栖息地宽度。然而，一个关键问题是了解环境变化与物种性特征之间的相互作用。人们强烈期望与配偶选择、性信号和繁殖相关的特征可能会影响物种对灭绝的脆弱性和/或对新环境条件的进化反应。本博士学位的目的是了解动物性特征与环境变化之间的关系，并阐明影响灭绝风险的因素和物种性特征的当代进化。