SFB-TRR 212
A Novel Synthesis of Individualisation across Behaviour, Ecology and Evolution: Niche Choice, Niche Conformance, Niche Construction (NC³).
Researchers from Bielefeld University, the University of Münster and the University of Jena joint forces in a Transregio Collaborative Research Centre (SFB-TRR) since 2018 to combine behavioural, evolutionary and theoretical biology and ecology in an etho-eco-evo approach. In this way, they develop a novel synthesis of individualisation that takes into account that the environmental conditions change throughout an animal's lifetime. The aim is to gain an unprecedented understanding of how and why individuals only realise a tiny subset of the species' niche and what the implications are for both ecological adjustment and evolutionary adaptation in a rapidly changing world.
