Research Grant
[Cite as https://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP0210196]Researchers: Darrell Kemp (Postdoctoral Fellow)
Brief description Life history constraints on sexual selection: an investigation using territoriality in butterflies. Contemporary studies into the evolution of male contest behaviour largely ignore the influence of life history. However, contest behaviour should be influenced by life history because the costs of fighting (injury or death) are extracted in a life history currency. Here I aim to measure reproductive value in a territorial butterfly, and to isolate the effects of this parameter, physiological condition and fighting experience upon male aggression. I propose an innovative experimental approach to unraveling the effects of these covarying life history influences which promises exciting and highly original insights into the evolution of contest behaviour.
Funding Amount $225,000
Funding Scheme Discovery Projects
- PURL : https://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP0210196
- ARC : DP0210196