Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP140100555
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Subterranean invertebrate communities of arid zone Western Australia: diversity, assessment and food-web structure. The diverse and unique subterranean fauna associated with aquifers of the Western Australia arid zone is potentially threatened by water extraction, mining and other human impacts. This project aims to apply a powerful combination of molecular genetic analyses and compound specific isotope analyses to study, for the first time, the food web structure and source of energy of these groundwater ecosystems. The project aims to also develop novel procedures for monitoring their biodiversity using environmental DNA within the groundwater. The results will provide crucial information for the management of groundwater, and conservation of their associated ecosystems, and significantly improve the rigour of long-term environmental monitoring.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 07-2014
End Date: 12-2018
Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
Funding Amount: $340,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Environmental Monitoring | Population, Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics | Genetics | Freshwater Ecology
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Ecosystem Assessment and Management of Fresh, Ground and Surface Water Environments | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Fresh, Ground and Surface Water Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity |
