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https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP140103357
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
The evolution and conservation consequences of promiscuity in plants pollinated by vertebrates. Pollen dispersal between plants, predominantly by insects and wind, is characteristically restricted to nearest neighbours. Recent molecular analysis of paternity for a Banksia pollinated by nectar-feeding birds showed atypical pollen dispersal, with high multiple paternity, wide outcrossing and local panmixis. With much of the Australian flora also bird-pollinated, our initial results have potentially wide and novel significance. This project proposes to test the generality of our observations for other vertebrate-pollinated species, and to test the conservation and evolutionary consequences of reduced pollen dispersal caused by habitat fragmentation and declining pollinators for a pollination paradigm facilitating promiscuity.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 2014
End Date: 12-2017
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $935,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Plant Biology not elsewhere classified | Population Ecology | Population, Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics | Genetics
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Remnant Vegetation and Protected Conservation Areas in Forest and Woodlands Environments | Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity at Regional or Larger Scales |
