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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP190102837
Funding Status
Active
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Funded Activity Summary
Species redundancy in response to multiple disturbances. This project aims to elucidate how the context within which disturbances occur affects food web linkages and how these map to responses in ecosystem function. There is a critical need to test the common assumption in environmental management that high biodiversity makes ecosystems resilient to disturbances. Studies that merely observe biodiversity change after disturbance cannot identify ecological processes connecting high diversity and ecosystem function, making experiments that manipulate identical disturbances in ecosystems with different biodiversity essential. This project will use field experiments that manipulate disturbances in streams replicated in low and high biodiversity regions and across gradients of chronic background stress to show how biodiversity sustains functional ecosystems, and how much diversity can be lost before ecosystems collapse.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 07-2019
End Date: 10-2024
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $242,994.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Ecology | Ecosystem Function | Conservation and Biodiversity | Freshwater Ecology
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Fresh, Ground and Surface Water Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity | Farmland, Arable Cropland and Permanent Cropland Water Management |
