Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0665303

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0665303

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Bottom-up effects of nutrients on estuarine fish related ecosystems. Over 84% of Australians live within 50 km of the coast, and have large impacts on coastal ecosystems, such as increasing nutrients in estuaries. Nutrients have strong bottom-up effects on fish ecosystems, especially during critical juvenile life history stages. Elevated nutrients can alter fish productivity and sustainability, having ecosystem and social implications. This project will combine experimental evidence with novel approaches of fatty acid tracers in food-webs and fish otolith (earbone) chemistry, to determine how nutrients affect fish ecosystems, recruitment, and survivorship. This project will provide information needed to create sustainable fisheries, to safeguard Australia's fisheries resources for future generations.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 10-2006

End Date: 10-2009

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $315,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Marine And Estuarine Ecology (Incl. Marine Ichthyology) | Ecology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Living resources (flora and fauna) | Land and water management | Physical and chemical conditions |

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