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A topic of increasing interest in recent years is the role of habitat heterogeneity in generating local adaptation at small geographic and temporal scales. However, and in spite of this interest, knowledge on the proximate mechanisms of ecological speciation and how exactly adaptation translates into reproductive isolation, is still quite scarce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A topic of increasing interest in recent years is the role of habitat heterogeneity in generating local adaptation at small geographic and temporal scales. However, and in spite of this interest, knowledge on the proximate mechanisms of ecological speciation and how exactly adaptation translates into reproductive isolation, is still quite scarce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":18154,"menu_order":137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-fills-programes-recerca.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18163","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"activeu_alerta":false,"arxius_adjunts":false,"boto_de_link_o_mail":false,"imatge_llistat":false,"img_cap":26285,"links_associats":false,"nou_carrusel":false,"presenta_fills":"no","tambe_us_pot_interessar":"","text_alerta":"","llistat_projectes":[{"titol":"Evolutionary responses of birds under three Global Change scenarios: Climate Change, Urbanization and Invasive Species","any":"2020","responsable":[{"ID":18521,"post_author":"3","post_date":"2014-05-12 17:59:20","post_date_gmt":"2014-05-12 17:59:20","post_content":"","post_title":"Joan Carles Senar","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"joan-carles-senar","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-08-29 12:59:14","post_modified_gmt":"2024-08-29 10:59:14","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/museuciencies.cat\/equip-huma\/joan-carles-senar-2\/","menu_order":29,"post_type":"equip-huma","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"financament":"Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovaci\u00f3n PID2020-114907GB-C21","durada":"4 years","descripcio":"

Contemporary evolution is often associated with human activities, because it forces animals to adapt to rapid changes in the environment. \u00a0Global change, therefore, is an ideal experimental scenario and an opportunity to study contemporary evolution and local adaptation. \u00a0The main aim of this project is to analyse these evolutionary patterns in terms of three of the main drivers of global change: Climate Change, Urbanization and Invasive Alien Species.<\/p>\n

Two of the main processes related to evolution will allow a population to cope with and adapt to its changing environment: phenotypic plasticity and adaptive microevolutionary selection. \u00a0Phenotypic plasticity is a process that should normally act rapidly and within relatively short timescales, in order to allow individuals to adjust their phenotypes to reproduce and survive under new conditions. The key question, however, is knowing to what extent animals are sufficiently plastic and flexible to cope with global change. \u00a0However, evolutionary change will be required through adaptive microevolutionary divergence in the medium and long term, to allow a population to adapt to the new conditions. However, despite the fact that an increasing number of examples are being published on the effect of climate change in animal species, very little information is available on the nature (adaptive or not) and the origin (plasticity versus evolution) of the observed responses to global change in wild birds. \u00a0The second general goal of this project is to explore these responses further.<\/p>\n

In this project, we are focusing on three global change scenarios. In the climate change scenario, we analyse how the local adaptation patterns of Crossbills to mountain pine cones are affected by the fruiting patterns of the nearby Austrian pine, with mass masting being exploited opportunistically by part of the population. Since climate change is affecting the frequency of mast years, we want to test the changes in local adaptation patterns. \u00a0In the Urbanization scenario, we want to carry out tests with birds in the family Paridae, such as how differential survival or phenotype-dependent movements can explain the phenotypic differences between urban and forest populations. In the invasive alien species scenario, we want to test the hypothesis of spatial classification and test survival selection in relation to morphology and behaviour, which can accelerate local adaptation patterns in invasive bird species.<\/p>\n

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Dr. Joan Carles Senar<\/p>\n

NUMBER OF PARTICIPATING RESEARCHERS:<\/p>\n

JC Senar (MCNB)
\nJ Quesada (MCNB)
\nM Bj\u00f6rklund (Uppsala University, Sweden)
\nB Hatchwell (Sheffield University, UK)
\nA Charmantier (CNRS, Montpellier, France)
\nA Gregoire (CNRS, Montpellier, France)
\nS Tenan (CNR, Venice, Italy)<\/p>\n

Financed by Ministry of Science and Innovation PID2020-114907GB-C21:<\/p>\n

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A\u00a0topic of\u00a0increasing\u00a0interest in recent\u00a0years is\u00a0the\u00a0role of habitat\u00a0heterogeneity in\u00a0generating local\u00a0adaptation\u00a0at\u00a0small\u00a0geographic\u00a0and temporal scales. However,\u00a0and in\u00a0spite of\u00a0this interest, knowledge\u00a0on\u00a0the\u00a0proximate\u00a0mechanisms of\u00a0ecological\u00a0speciation\u00a0and\u00a0how\u00a0exactly\u00a0adaptation\u00a0translates into\u00a0reproductive\u00a0isolation, is\u00a0still\u00a0quite scarce. Sexual\u00a0selection is\u00a0increasingly\u00a0recognized as\u00a0one of the\u00a0processes\u00a0that\u00a0modulate local adaptation.\u00a0One of\u00a0the\u00a0main\u00a0aims of\u00a0our Project is to\u00a0adopt an\u00a0integrative\u00a0perspective\u00a0incorporating\u00a0both\u00a0ecological\u00a0inte actions\u00a0and sexual\u00a0selection to analyze\u00a0processes of local adaptation.\u00a0We focus on\u00a0four model\u00a0systems\u00a0where\u00a0we\u00a0have\u00a0previously\u00a0shown local\u00a0differentiation\u00a0at\u00a0small\u00a0spatiotemporal scales:\u00a0Great tits in\u00a0urban habitats,\u00a0Crossbills\u00a0and\u00a0Citril finches\u00a0in\u00a0the\u00a0Pyrenees\u00a0and\u00a0Collared\u00a0flycatchers in\u00a0heterogeneous forests\u00a0close to Budapest (Hungary). We\u00a0focus on\u00a0three model\u00a0traits in\u00a0addition to morphology: personality,\u00a0plumage\u00a0coloration\u00a0and\u00a0bird song.\u00a0These\u00a0three individual\u00a0traits\u00a0often\u00a0interact\u00a0with\u00a0each\u00a0other\u00a0and\u00a0may be\u00a0the\u00a0subject of\u00a0both local\u00a0adaptation\u00a0and sexual\u00a0selection processes.\u00a0We\u00a0aim\u00a0at\u00a0differentiating\u00a0the\u00a0role of\u00a0these\u00a0traits\u00a0and their\u00a0components for local\u00a0adaptation\u00a0by\u00a0comparing\u00a0features\u00a0that\u00a0are\u00a0likely\u00a0media ted\u00a0by\u00a0genetic factors \/\u00a0condition\u00a0dependence (e.g. personality,\u00a0colour or\u00a0song rate)\u00a0and\u00a0features\u00a0that\u00a0are\u00a0more\u00a0likely shaped\u00a0by\u00a0rapid cultural\u00a0evolution or\u00a0that display\u00a0high\u00a0flexibility (e.g.\u00a0song composition).<\/p>\n

Researcher:\u00a0\u00a0 Dr. Juan Carlos Senar<\/p>\n

Number of participants: 6<\/p>\n

J. C. Senar (MCNB)<\/p>\n

F. Uribe (MCNB)<\/p>\n

J. Quesada (MCNB)<\/p>\n

T. Montalvo (Agecia Salut Publica Barcelona)<\/p>\n

J. J. Negro (Estaci\u00f3n Biologica Do\u00f1ana)<\/p>\n

L. Garamszegi (Estaci\u00f3n Biologica Do\u00f1ana)<\/p>\n","documents_adjunts":false}],"presenta_peu":false},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museuciencies.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museuciencies.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museuciencies.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museuciencies.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museuciencies.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/museuciencies.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18163\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museuciencies.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museuciencies.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}