Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP160100316

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP160100316

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Lucky in Love: the role of chance in sexual selection. Is luck important in the lives of animals? This project aims to ascertain how much variation in male mating success is attributable to male quality, traits or resources and how much is attributable to luck. Mating is the most important evolutionary process. Male mating success should be highly predictable: males with the best genes, most preferred displays or highest quality resources should attract females. Male mating success is, however, surprisingly difficult to predict and we currently write off up to 90 per cent of the variance as noise. This project aims to quantify the relative importance of deterministic and stochastic sources of variation in male mating success. Ignored variance may be an untapped opportunity to understand selection.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 04-01-2016

End Date: 31-12-2019

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $337,400.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

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

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