Títol: Are urban birds different in their means and variances?
From single-site to continental collaborations
Understanding the mechanisms by which populations can rapidly adapt to global change is crucial to predict their viability.
Charmantier and Thompson uncover in this talk the potential processes that may increase phenotypic variation in urban populations by combining datasets from 14 different urban gradients across Europe. Results on great and blue tits reveal that both differentiation among and within urban subpopulations likely contribute to higher individual differences Identifying continental impacts of urbanization on trait variation will be crucial as phenotypic. Variation has the potential to shape both ecological and evolutionary processes in diverse ways, and thus could play an important role in urban adaptation.
Idioma vehicular: anglès.
Lloc: sala d’actes del Castell dels Tres Dragons
Ponents:
Prof. Anne Charmantier, Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE, Montpellier, France)
Dr. Megan Thompson, Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE, Montpellier, France)
Dins el programa de Seminaris de Biodiversitat, SEMBIO. Debat i intercanvi d’experiències essencialment sobre sistemàtica, zoologia, evolució animal i filogènia molecular. Aquestes xerrades estan organitzades pel Grup de Recerca Consolidat ZooSysEvo format per científics de la Facultat de Biologia (UB) i del Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona. L’objectiu és difondre els continguts de la recerca d’investigadors del grup o d’algun investigador convidat.