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Impacts of biodiversity loss on food webs during the Upper Palaeolithic in the Cantabrian Region.

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arrying capacity, and b) the vulnerability of human populations to climate changes. The Evolutionary Ecology Group, led by Prof. Manica and renowned for ecological modelling, will provide training in machine learning techniques to reconstruct trophic interactions between species. In addition, training in ancient DNA metabarcoding will be acquired during a secondment in Prof. Alsos’s Ancient DNA lab. Using climate-induced biomass fluctuations, we will estimate the abundance of each species and compute, for the first time, energy fluxes along trophic links. This will enable the first quantitative assessment of human resilience to climate change and biodiversity loss in our deep past. The training and research offered by this MSCA will position me as an expert in past trophic networks and computational archaeology. FOOD-WEBS will build a new reference framework to assess the relationship between climate change, biodiversity loss, and human population dynamics in Prehistory. Paleoecology, Modelling, Computational Archaeology, Environment

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