Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP0991026
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Devising ecologically sustainable restoration programs for degraded rural landscapes by integrating landscape ecology, genetics and ecophysiology. Concern about tree decline in rural landscape is widespread, and disturbingly climate change is predicted to exacerbate this problem. Past ill-considered tree plantings have proven to be economically wasteful, achieved limited ecological resilience and negligible improvement of biodiversity values. Using Tasmania as a 'model system', we will advance this problem by undertaking research to determine how seedling establishment, tree growth, carbon storage and water use are influenced by landscape setting, management history, climate change, species type and local varieties. This research will provide a much needed evidence to devise ecologically sustainable tree-plantings in southern Australia.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 11-2009
End Date: 06-2013
Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
Funding Amount: $530,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Landscape Ecology | Ecological Applications | Population And Ecological Genetics | Plant Physiology
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Integration of farm and forestry | Rehabilitation/reafforestation | Remnant vegetation and protected conservation areas |
