Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP150100339

Funding Activity

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Funded Activity Summary

Functional-trait approach to restoration of species-rich shrublands. The project aims to deliver management tools that will help mining companies to meet restoration targets and to improve the field of trait-based predictive restoration ecology. Species-rich kwongan shrublands of south-west Australia are a biodiversity treasure. Despite their global and national conservation value, little is known about which plant traits are most important for community assembly and diversity maintenance. This project plans to use plant functional traits related to nutrient and water acquisition to predict plant community assembly under different soil resource availabilities and thus assist in successful rehabilitation of this native vegetation after closure of sand-mining operations.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 12-2015

End Date: 12-2018

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $354,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Ecology | Community Ecology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Rehabilitation of Degraded Mining Environments |