Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DE150100542
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Understanding adaptation of plants along environmental clines. This project aims to address a key debate on the relative roles of dispersal and selection on adaptation, testing how life history traits determine the magnitude of adaptation. Since dispersal should override selection, this project endeavours to show that plants that strongly disperse will display weaker signals of adaptation but a higher capacity to adapt. The project aims to test these predictions with ecological genomics and functional genetics at a multi-species scale across climate gradients in South Australia, using a novel design that separates dispersal (isolation-by-distance) from selection (isolation-by-ecology). This understanding will provide improved conservation planning that seeks to restore resilience to biological communities that are under increasing environmental pressures.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 07-2015
End Date: 06-2018
Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
Funding Amount: $355,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Population, Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics | Conservation and Biodiversity | Genetics | Biological Adaptation
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Ecosystem Adaptation to Climate Change | Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity at Regional or Larger Scales | Forest and Woodlands Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity |
