Following up on my new position as Junior Researcher at cE3c, me and the research team managed to secure project funding from FCT, in a highly competitive call (7% funding rate), with no less than the highest score in the panel of Biological Sciences. "EDGES - Temperature and nutrient interactions in aquatic ectotherms: individuals, populations and communities at latitudinal edges" just became real.
This is my first project as PI and I am very excited about the partnerships with EBC (Uppsala University, Sweden), SBCS (Queen Mary University of London, UK) and CEF (University of Lisbon, Portugal).
Abstract
The project will study trophic plasticity in individuals, populations and communities at the edges of a 2500 km latitudinal gradient between Southern Portugal (38° N) and Southern Sweden (56º N). We aim to develop a comprehensive study of temperature and nutrient interactions on individual fitness, to flesh out the physiological pathways involved in temperature-induced dietary shifts, assessing the potential contribution of gut microbiota, and to examine the impacts on natural communities.