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Importance and influences of long-term trade-offs on population dynamics and evolutionary trajectories

Research Project

Project/Area Number 23K27243
Project/Area Number (Other) 23H02552 (2023)
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund (2024)
Single-year Grants (2023)
Section一般
Review Section Basic Section 45040:Ecology and environment-related
Research InstitutionThe University of Tokyo

Principal Investigator

シェファーソン リチャード  東京大学, 大学院総合文化研究科, 准教授 (10747108)

Project Period (FY) 2023-04-01 – 2027-03-31
Project Status Granted (Fiscal Year 2024)
Budget Amount *help
¥14,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥10,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥3,270,000)
Fiscal Year 2026: ¥3,640,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥840,000)
Fiscal Year 2025: ¥4,160,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥960,000)
Fiscal Year 2024: ¥3,770,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥870,000)
Fiscal Year 2023: ¥2,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥600,000)
Keywordsdemography / evolution / ecology / plants / Demography / Population / Ecology
Outline of Research at the Start

Long-term monitoring data taken at the individual level from perennial herb populations around the world will be used to ascertain the influence of long-term trade-offs on population dynamics and evolution. The influence on conservation status will also be explored.

Outline of Annual Research Achievements

During the first year of the research project, I developed the first draft of an adaptive dynamics function that will serve as the basis for the new R package. I also completed and published a new research paper that serves as the first example of a case study for use in the development of the package. This paper was published in the Journal of Ecology, which is one of the top 10 journals in ecology and evolution worldwide. Concurrently, with a colleague, I have found evidence to suggest that historical matrix models need to be altered in their parameterization when created as empirical MPMs (IPM -style historical MPMs are not affected by this issue).

Current Status of Research Progress
Current Status of Research Progress

1: Research has progressed more than it was originally planned.

Reason

I am currently introducing new functions to rapidly automate the simulations required for a full adaptive dynamics function, and also producing extra functions to visualize and analyze the results. I am developing an initial MPM development and comparison of five herbaceous perennial demographic datasets that will also serve as a stepping point for some of the initial analyses to be conducted when this project approaches completion.

Strategy for Future Research Activity

The current plan is to continue with the R package building this year, in the hopes of having a full draft package available for submission by the end of the fiscal year. Concurrently, I am developing an analysis that will be turned into the first paper using the package, in the process introducing it. I am currently developing a collaboration with colleagues at the University of California at Berkeley, Oxford University, and the University of Budapest to develop this.

Report

(1 results)
  • 2023 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (2 results)

All 2024 2023

All Journal Article (1 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results,  Peer Reviewed: 1 results,  Open Access: 1 results) Presentation (1 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results)

  • [Journal Article] Life history costs drive the evolution of mycoheterotrophs: Increased sprouting and flowering in a strongly mycoheterotrophic <i>Pyrola</i> species2024

    • Author(s)
      Shefferson Richard P.、Shutoh Kohtaroh、Suetsugu Kenji
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Ecology

      Volume: In press Issue: 6 Pages: 1287-1300

    • DOI

      10.1111/1365-2745.14299

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Evolution of increased sprouting and reproduction associated with the evolutionary transition to mycoheterotrophy in Pyrola spp.2023

    • Author(s)
      Richard P. Shefferson
    • Organizer
      Annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research

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Published: 2023-04-18   Modified: 2024-12-25  

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