Untangling local drivers of species interactions: a multi-elevational experiment in Colombia

The internship project for this Mitacs proposal will provide new data that will be added to the existing set from a 3-year standardized experiment across North and South America. The internship will be conducted in collaboration with Professor Pablo Stevenson’s research team from Universidad de Los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia) and aims to determine which, if any, of three local ecological mechanisms (climate, productivity, and biodiversity) best predicts geographic variation in predation and if this variation is consistent across two different trophic levels (seeds and caterpillars). The duration of this project abroad will be of about 13 weeks and will be partly executed along a steep elevational transect composed of sites located between 800 and 2300 meters above sea level near the municipality of Medina, Colombia.

Faculty Supervisor:

Anna Hargreaves

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Partner:

Universidad de los Andes

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Life Sciences (not health); Sustainability & the Environment; Environmental Science and Technology

University:

McGill University

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