Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DE140101611
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Snow, shrub and climate feedbacks: impacts of shrub expansion in the Australian alpine zone. This project aims to understand the mechanisms promoting shrub expansion in alpine areas and the consequences of a shrub-dominated landscape in terms of shrubs as hydrological mediators and as biodiversity and ecosystem modifiers. Some shrub species trap wind-blown snow, thereby facilitating seedling survival through soil insulation and increases to meltwater. However, if adaptive and plastic responses to climate change allows, shrub expansion will have significant negative impacts on alpine biodiversity and ecosystem function. This project will tease apart the interacting effects of snow, recruitment and adaptation to provide models of shrub increase and determine how shrubs modify alpine ecosystem processes and upper catchment hydrology.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 06-2014
End Date: 02-2019
Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
Funding Amount: $379,040.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Terrestrial Ecology | Ecological Impacts of Climate Change | Ecology | Ecosystem Function |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Effects of Climate Change and Variability on Australia (excl. Social Impacts) | Mountain and High Country Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity | Mountain and High Country Land and Water Management
