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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0773558
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Bio-optical model of Antarctic sea-ice algae photosynthesis. Antarctica contains no permanent human population; however the impact of climate change is being observed. Sea-ice is slowly becoming less thick and covering smaller areas of the Southern Ocean. Algae grow on the underside of this sea-ice which feed krill, which in turn support most of the Antarctic food web. Understanding how changes in sea-ice and snow thickness will change the productivity of Antarctica will have significant implications to our management of this wilderness. Knowledge of how sea-ice algae responds to changes in light can be incorporated in climate change models.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 03-2007
End Date: 12-2010
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $263,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Plant Biology | Plant Physiology | Phycology
