Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE140101481

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DE140101481

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Integrating ecology and evolution: how does sexual selection affect population fitness and extinction? Improving our understanding of population fitness could produce important new advances in evolutionary and conservation biology. Sexual selection has been proposed to both help and harm population fitness, but unfortunately these opposing effects have been studied in isolation. This project will develop new theory to resolve confusion over the definition of population fitness and its relationship with sexual selection. It also proposes ambitious experimental evolution and quantitative genetic studies that will empirically measure the net effect of sexual selection on population fitness and extinction. This project aims to catalyse a change in the study of population fitness and address a conspicuous gap in contemporary evolutionary biology.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 30-06-2014

End Date: 29-06-2017

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $390,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Evolutionary Impacts of Climate Change | Speciation and Extinction | Population, Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics | Genetics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences |

Other Keywords

Evolutionary Impacts of Climate Change | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Genetics | Population, Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics | Speciation and Extinction

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