RESICLIM project
RESilience of Insects and ecosystem functioning to CLIMatic changes
PROGRAMA CAPES-FCT
CAPES: 88881.467778/2019-01 ; FCT: 2019.00202.CBM
2022- 2023
This project follows up on EUCLIPO project, and its main aim is to identify insect traits (e.g. body size and diet) and assemblage characteristics (genetic diversity) that influence their susceptibility to climate change taking into account interactive effects with other environmental changes (e.g. environmental eutrophication).
The project is organized in four work packages:
WP1 - create and expand occurrence and trait databases of insects (e.g. pollinators, herbivores, parasitoids)
WP2 - evaluate the effect of climate change and environmental eutrophication on plant-insect interaction patterns and ecosystem functioning and services
WP3 - evaluate how climate and diet preferences affect the geographical patterns of functional traits that influence insect thermoregulation
WP4 - evaluate the importance of functional traits and genetic diversity on insect susceptibility to future climate changes
Team & participation institutions
Outputs (under construction):
Siopa, C. et al. 2024. Animal-pollinated crops and cultivars – a quantitative assessment of Pollinator Dependence values and evaluation of methodological approaches. Journal of Applied Ecology. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14634