Cooperation with Ecuador

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Nico Blüthgen
• Subject Area: Ecology and Biodiversity of Animals and Ecosystems, Organismic Interactions
• Term: since 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 444827997

As part of the coordination project the research unit applies for centralized funding for the genetic analyses across subprojects that will be hosted and coordinated by María-José Endara at Universidad Tecnológica Indoamérica (Modul 2), costs for DNA-barcoding coordinated by the speaker Nico Blüthgen and centralized costs for the identification and conservation of insects collected in the subprojects coordinated and supervised by David Donoso at Escuela Politécnica Nacional (Module 3). The modules are described in the coordination project.

• DFG Programme: Research Units
• Subproject of: FOR 5207: Reassembly of species interaction networks – Resistance, resilience and functional recovery of a rainforest ecosystem
• International Connection: Ecuador
• International Co-Applicants: Professor Dr. David Donoso, Ph.D.; Dr. María-José Endara