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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0770910
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Winter Foraging Locations Of Southern Ocean Predators In Relation To Stochastic Variation In Sea-Ice Extent. Antarctic marine communities are likely to be amongst the first anywhere to show changes due to climate change. A top national priority for Australia is to understand how Antarctic communities will be affected if climate change does occur. As predators reflect changes occurring lower in the food chain, these are an important group to study. This study will be the first to specifically link ice extent with the habitat use of predators, and quantify how this varies over time. Some work already indicates that there have been community level changes in some predators in the Antarctic due to changes in ice extent, so developing tools to predict the nature and magnitude of these changes are needed.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 2007
End Date: 08-2011
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $263,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Marine And Estuarine Ecology (Incl. Marine Ichthyology) | Conservation And Biodiversity | Other Biological Sciences | Global Change Biology
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Climate variability | Living resources (flora and fauna) | Oceanic processes (excl. climate related) |
