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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DE230100992
Funding Status
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Funded Activity Summary
A novel epigenetic clock tool to conserve Australia’s threatened seabirds. The aim is to develop a novel epigenetic technique for the demographic assessment of long-lived seabirds, including albatrosses and petrels, for application to the conservation of 11 threatened species breeding across Australia. A major innovation will be an affordable and fieldwork-friendly technique to demographically fingerprint any population, ending the large amount of guesswork currently necessary in management. The outcome is expected to enable (i) scientists and wildlife managers to impute the impact of threats and management activities on seabird populations, allowing quantitative scenario modelling, and (ii) stakeholders to analyse numerous threats and optimise management responses to these through research-based decision-making.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 09-2023
End Date: 09-2026
Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
Funding Amount: $426,216.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Population ecology | Conservation and biodiversity | Environmental management | Wildlife and habitat management
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
