Modelos mecanicistas para entender dinâmicas populacionais e adaptação termal como fatores emergentes

• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, Carlos Eduardo Klein de
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/12512
• topic: Modelo baseado em indiíduo; Dinâmica populacional; Temperatura; Adaptação termal; Ecologia termal; Individual based model; Population dynamics; Temperature; Thermal adaptation; Thermal ecology; CIENCIAS BIOLOGICAS::ECOLOGIA

At first, I review the effects of temperature on organisms and higher levels of biological organization in the first chapter. After that, in the second chapter, my goal was to develop an IBM that predicts realistic population dynamics in different temperature regimes, and that can be general enough to account for the responses of a variety of species. I used theoretical knowledge of thermal ecology, coupled with some principles of dynamic energy budget theory to reach realistic population outcomes for generated random species. After those models were complete, in the third chapter, I incorporated variability and heritability in the organisms’ thermal traits, so that it was be possible to glimpse on the possibilities for fast adaptation to abrupt changes in temperature. A mechanistic approach to those questions can be important for theoretical developments, and may open possibilities to understanding of other questions related to models’ assumptions and predictions.