Programme title: OP Research, Development and Education
Call number: 02_19_074
Call title: International mobility of researchers - MSCA-IF III in OP Priority Axis 2
Project title EN: Drivers and mechanisms of habitat selection and movement patterns of native ungulate communities in relation to resource distribution and livestock grazing in West African protected areas
Project title CZ: Hybné faktory a mechanismy selekce habitatů a charakteristiky pohybu ve společenstvech původních kopytníků ve vztahu k distribuci zdrojů a pastvě hospodářských zvířat v chráněných územích západní Afriky
Project registration number: CZ.02.2.69/0.0/0.0/19_074/0016295
Project description
The project will enable a researcher from CZU to travel to the prestigious scientific institution Zoological Society of London, Institute of Zoology and professional development through a research project submitted to the MSCA-IF scheme of the Horizon 2020 programme. The research aims to link environmental features of savanna ecosystems in West Africa with spatiotemporal animal behaviour and to reveal their influence on animal movements concerning the dynamic distribution of resources and livestock in protected areas.
Budget (total eligible expenditures): 5 758 704,00 CZK
Project implementation period: 1. 3. 2020 – 31. 5. 2023
Involved university unit: Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences
Principal Investigator: prof. RNDr. Pavla Hejcmanová, Ph.D.
This project is co-financed by the EU