Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0451402

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0451402

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Disease in endangered species: The importance of multiple-host infection and spatial structure. Pathogens are increasingly recognised as threats to endangered species. Managing such threats requires models to assess alternative strategies. Most current models deal with a single host and single pathogen, without spatial structure, although multiple-host pathogens pose the greatest conservation threats. This project develops a new generation of spatially-structured multiple-host models, and applies them to two case studies. The first is the chytrid fungus that is thought to have lead to widespread declines and extinctions of frogs in Australia and overseas. The second is birdpox and malaria that have led to the extinction and endangerment of much of Hawaii's endemic avifauna.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 2004

End Date: 12-2008

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $210,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Epidemiology | Conservation And Biodiversity | Environmental Science and Management | Conservation

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Control of pests and exotic species | Living resources (flora and fauna) |

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