Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0449536

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0449536

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Fighting for space: How do weaker individuals compete? Animals fight for territories and larger, stronger individuals usually win. How then, in fiddler crabs, do small males and weaponless females defend their territories against larger males? I will investigate four contexts in which strength alone may not determine fighting success. I predict that: (a) positional and motivational advantages allow territory owners to repel intruders; (b) weak individuals compete with stronger neighbours by 'nagging' rather than by winning fights; (c) residents form coalitions to fend off intruders; and d) females, who lack the large claws of males, employ novel alternative tactics to maintain territories.This study will test important theories of territoriality and in so doing make a major contribution to behavioural ecology.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2004

End Date: 31-12-2007

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $200,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Sociobiology And Behavioural Ecology | Evolutionary Biology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Biological sciences |

Other Keywords

Biological sciences | Evolutionary Biology | Sociobiology And Behavioural Ecology

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