Biogeographic history of plant communities
(B01)
Subject Area
Evolution and Systematics of Plants and Fungi
Term
since 2016
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 268236062
The project is aiming to link biological processes and spatial/compositional patterning with environmental proxies limiting seed germination, plant establishment and growth, and will explore plant phenotypic plasticity and variation in the field and under controlled growth conditions thereby focusing on temperature, humidity and carbon dioxide values. Those measures can be then directly linked with environmental proxies obtained and evidenced from field data. An evolutionary experiment using a gene capture experiment and developing a timeline of independent and parallel evolution of epiarenic Tillandsia will provide direct evidence for the onset of tillandsiales in the Chilean-Peruvian Atacama Desert.
DFG Programme
Collaborative Research Centres