Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0349204

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP0349204

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Increasing sandalwood (Santalum spicatum) recruitment in regional Western Australia through mammal conservation. The highly prized sandalwood is the basis of an industry that employs over 100 people and generates $12 million export income annually in regional WA. Natural recruitment of sandalwood is poor. This project will build on research, conducted by Murdoch University and the Forest Products Commission, that indicates natural recruitment of the tree is greatly enhance in the presence of native rat-kangaroos who cache the seeds. This project will train an APA(I) postgraduate through an industry based project that will evaluate increased recruitment of sandalwood by native mammal caching. Many of these mammals are Conservation Dependent or Threatened with extinction.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 12-2003

End Date: 12-2010

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $84,099.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Terrestrial Ecology | Landscape Ecology | Conservation And Biodiversity | Environmental Science and Management |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Forestry | Native forests | Integrated (ecosystem) assessment and management

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