Topographical and topological constraints on evolutionary and ecological systems
Informations
- Funding country
Hungary- Acronym
- -
- URL
- -
- Start date
- 2/1/2002
- End date
- 12/31/2005
- Budget
- 24,999 EUR
Fundings
| Name | Role | Start | End | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thematic Programme | Grant | 2/1/2002 | 12/31/2005 | 24,999 EUR |
Abstract
The problems we are planning to study are related both in their subjects and in the methods we intend to use in studying them, yet they are distinct theoretical problems. With respect to their subjects they can be grouped into two major fields: Evolution biological problems: 1) Mating type evolution, 2) Problems in prebiotic evolution and 3) The evolution of dispersal. Theoretical ecological problems: 4) Metapopulations in very noisy environments, 5) The role of interference competition in maintaining microbial community diversity, and 6) The structure and the stability of food webs. The common point in these six topics is the assumption that spatial and topological structures are important aspects of the dynamics in models that have been studied with nonspatial representations, in which we suspect that the role of space and topological structure play an important role.