BIOGEAST

Biodiversity of East-European and Siberian large mammals on the level of genetic variation of populations

Coordinatore	INSTYTUT BIOLOGII SSAKOW POLSKIEJ AKADEMII NAUK    more  Organization address address: GEN A WASZKIEWICZA 1C city: BIALOWIEZA postcode: 17230 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Rafal Cognome: Kowalczyk Email: send email Telefono: +48 856827750 Fax: +48 856827752
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Poland [PL]
Totale costo	163˙800 €
EC contributo	163˙800 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IRSES
Funding Scheme	MC-IRSES
Anno di inizio	2011
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2011-09-01   -   2016-08-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	INSTYTUT BIOLOGII SSAKOW POLSKIEJ AKADEMII NAUK  Organization address address: GEN A WASZKIEWICZA 1C city: BIALOWIEZA postcode: 17230 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Rafal Cognome: Kowalczyk Email: send email Telefono: +48 856827750 Fax: +48 856827752	PL (BIALOWIEZA)	coordinator	131˙400.00
2	TARTU ULIKOOL  Organization address address: ULIKOOLI 18 city: TARTU postcode: 50090 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Urmas Cognome: Saarma Email: send email Telefono: +372 7 375 099 Fax: +372 7 375 830	EE (TARTU)	participant	32˙400.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The project, planned for 4 years, aims at building a network of research centres in Central and Eastern Europe and Siberia, and apply the state-of-art knowledge in genetics and macroecology to: (1) investigate phylogeography of 7 species of large mammals (wolf, Eurasian lynx, brown bear, moose, red deer, roe deer, and wild boar); (2) identify the locations of LGM refugia for large mammals in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe and the routes of their post-glacial dispersal to current ranges; (3) recognise large-scale patterns of neutral genetic variation of large mammals and correlate them with macroecological variation in life habits; (4) investigate the past genetic variation of European bison (based on ancient DNA extracted from the 19th century museum specimens). The project will be performed by 2 consortium members located in EU: Mammal Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland, and Department of Zoology, University of Tartu, Estonia, as well as 5 partner institutions from 3 Eastern countries: A. N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Moscow, Russia; Research Institute of Game Management and Fur Farming, Kirov, Russia; Institute for Biological Problems of Cryolithozone, Yakutsk, Russian Federation; The Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, Kiev, Ukraine; and Faculty of Life Sciences, Ilia Chavchavadze State University, Tbilisi, Georgia. In total, 91 exchange visits (typically, one-month long) are planned. Staff secondment is well balanced with 48 person-months from the EU to the Eastern countries, and 43 from the Eastern countries to the EU. Transfer of knowledge between the partners will also include regular seminars delivered by the seconded staff and two workshops. We expect that the results of the project will form a major contribution to our understanding of pan-European patterns and processes in mammalian biodiversity on the level of genetic variation. This is the first attempt of such a large-scale study in Eurasia.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

Researchers from Central and Eastern Europe and from Siberia have begun collaborating on an EU-funded project. Their goal is to better understand how global processes have affected the genetic diversity of seven large mammals in the Eurasian scale.