University of Tuebingen
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| Christian Lampei |  |
| University of Tuebingen Institute of Evolution and Ecology Department of Plant Ecology Auf der Morgenstelle 3 D-72076 Tuebingen Germany |
| mail: christian.lampei (at) uni-tuebingen.de |
| phone: ++49-(0)7071-29-73234 |
| Room No. 38 |
| Research interest |
| In general my interest in research is to study the fascinating manifold patterns of evolution from the molecule up to community level. My special interest is the impact of global climate change on plant evolution and species persistence. In my projects I apply population genetic methods (microsatellites and sequencing), the phytogeographical approach as well as ecological experiments in the field and greenhouse.
In my Diploma thesis and a following three months project I worked on the phylogeography of the perennial thistles Cirsium heterophyllum and Cirsium oleraceum which was influenced by the last glaciation. Our focus was on the possible impact of the two hosts on the evolution of their parasite, the fruit fly Tephritis conura, which divided into two distinct host races (publication in process). |
| Project: Annual plant populations under global climate change: estimating selection forces and possibility of preadaptation (Part of GLOWA Jordan River Phase II) |
| keywords: annual plants, climate change, seed germination, dormancy, plasticity |
| In my PhD thesis I study patterns of adaptation, plasticity and population structure in annual plant populations along steep climatic gradients in Israel and Jordan. The project is part of the international GLOWA Jordan River Project (subproject: "Predicting extinction probabilities of annual plant species under climate change: population - level response").
My focal species are Biscutella didyma (Cruciferae) and Bromus fasciculatus (Poaceae) for both of which an adaptation in dormancy and other life history traits to local climate has already been demonstrated (Petru & Tielbörger 2005). In my experiments, I first test these patterns for approx. fifteen additional annual species for evaluating the universality of some results. In the course of three years several common garden experiments and irrigation experiments will be carried out focussing on three main issues: i) The broad sense heritability and the plasticity of adaptive life-history traits Additionally I will study the population genetic structure of Biscutella didyma to gain empirical information about the impact of different selection scenarios on the population structure of annual plant populations. Finally I want to estimate the influence of soil seed bank and migration on allelfrequency changes between the generations. |
| Locality/region: Israel |
| Project duration: 2005-2008 |
| funded by: BMBF |