MEIOSIS
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Year
Funding
Host Institute
Principal Investigator
Advisory Board & Collaborating Institutes
Prof. Vassiliki Kati -University of Ioannina, Greece
Dr. Eva Knop -University of Zurich, Switzerland
Prof. Consuelo De Moraes -Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETH), Switzerland
Dr. Oliver Schweiger -Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Germany
Assoc. Prof. Brent Sewall -Temple University, USA
Dr. Maria Dimaki -Goulandris Natural History Museum, Greece
Other collaborators: Dr. Melissa Whitaker Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETH), Switzerland
Predict the ecological traits that make butterflies adaptable to climate change
- Model the decreasing body size of butterflies as a response to climate change across different environments.
- Map species’ traits that predict the ability of an organism to shrink/ adapt to climate change in relation to its environment.
- Model the decreasing body size of butterflies as a response to climate change across different environments.
Test the relative importance of climate change in body size across different environments: time will serve as a proxy for the increasing temperature, and the location of specimens will serve as a proxy for a variety of geographical elements (e.g., elevation, latitude) and will define the type of the environment the specimen was collected from such as urban areas, agriculture areas, forests and grasslands.
Address directional shifts in community structure: MEIOSIS expects that larger or cold-affinity species will “fly out” and smaller or warm-affinity species will “fly in” altering community structure and average community body size.
- Map species’ traits that predict the ability of an organism to shrink/ adapt to climate change in relation to its environment.
- Test the relative importance of species traits (i.e., diet, distribution, voltinism) on shrinking body size and across different environments.
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Digitization & Body size measurements
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Data analysis
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Scientific paper writing
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Dissemination & Communication
In this section, we will upload gradually the project outputs, including open access databases, conferences talks or posters, popular science texts and briefs as well as media material
Databases
Publications
Science for Society
Open lectures
Policy brief
News
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