During my second year Master’s internship, I worked on the competition-colonisation trade-off. My model species was Crepis sancta, an annual plant which produces two types of seeds, only differing by their germination phenology.
Identifying oak masting drivers is a major goal to achieve in order to be able to build more accurate models to predict oak masting and to forecast it’s evolution in the context of climate change.
Morphological allometry corresponds to the way trait size scales with body size. This relation has been shown to reflect ecological adaptation of organisms to their environment and more particularly to the mean size of the resource exploited.
