Projects funded by the NCN
Cell size and performance of ectotherms across environmental gradients in temperature and oxygen availability - testing the theory of optimal cell size on Drosophila melanogaster
2016/21/B/NZ8/00303
Keywords:
cell size ectotherms body size thermal performance body temperature oxygen respiration metabolism limitation insects tracheal system environmental conditions physiological ecology evolutionary ecology thermal biology phenotypic plasticity evolution global warming Bergmann's rule temperature-size rule (TSR) reproduction rate flight performance
Descriptors:
- NZ8_2: Ecology
- NZ8_1: Evolutionary biology
- NZ4_2: Physiology
Panel:
NZ8 - Evolutionary and environmental biology: evolution, ecology, population biology, biodiversity, biogeography
Host institution :
Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Wydział Biologii i Nauk o Ziemi
woj. małopolskie
Principal investigator (from the host institution):
Number of co-investigators in the project: 5
Call: OPUS 11 - announced on 2016-03-15
Amount awarded: 796 821 PLN
Project start date (Y-m-d): 2017-05-04
Project end date (Y-m-d): 2022-05-03
Project duration:: 36 months (the same as in the proposal)
Project status: Project completed
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