Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP150100761
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Improving prediction of rocky reef ecosystem responses to human impacts. This project aims to improve our understanding of inshore ecosystems to facilitate better management of our living marine heritage. The project first aims to extend field datasets on the density and distribution of thousands of marine fishes, invertebrates and macro-algae. These will then be combined using recent advances in quantitative ecological modelling to describe transfer of biomass between species at hundreds of sites, with a primary focus on southern Australia. It is anticipated that this will provide site-level indices of major food web processes that, when combined with ‘before, after, control, impact’ data, will improve prediction of ecological consequences of fishing, climate change, pest outbreaks and pollution.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 03-2016
End Date: 03-2021
Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
Funding Amount: $900,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Marine and Estuarine Ecology (incl. Marine Ichthyology) | Ecological Impacts of Climate Change | Environmental Science and Management | Conservation and Biodiversity
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Ecosystem Adaptation to Climate Change | Marine Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity | Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity at Regional or Larger Scales |
