Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP150100298

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP150100298

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Can inbreeding avoidance cause the evolution of sex-biased dispersal? This project aims to combine unique long-term data with a novel Citizen Science approach to seek to provide the first complete test of the hypothesis that inbreeding avoidance can cause one of the best known patterns in mammal and bird societies - sex differences in when and how far juveniles disperse. Dispersal is a critically important ecological and evolutionary process, as it influences the fate of populations, and also determines the individuals with which a disperser will spend the remainder of its life. It therefore shapes the likelihood that kin will interact to cooperate or compete, and determines the pool of individuals with which the disperser can mate.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 15-04-2015

End Date: 14-04-2019

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $515,420.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Population Ecology | Life Histories | Ecology | Behavioural Ecology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences |

Other Keywords

Behavioural Ecology | Ecology | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Life Histories | Population Ecology

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