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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP220102040
Funding Status
Active
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Funded Activity Summary
Rapid evolution, and the dynamics and stability of ecological communities. Population sizes of species go up and down and often we do not know why. This is a problem because changes in population size underpin more complex ecological change, and understanding why population sizes change affects our ability to manage environmental impacts, and threatened, harvested and pest species. The aim of this project is to discover how rapid evolution – evolution occurring over just a few generations – drives changes in population sizes of plants in Australian freshwater ecosystems. By focusing on this fundamental yet poorly understood process, our results promise to rewrite our understanding of the causes of change in ecological communities, while highlighting a unique and little studied component of Australia’s biota.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 12-2022
End Date: 12-2025
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $417,875.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Population Ecology | Ecology | Community Ecology | Freshwater Ecology
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Ecosystem Adaptation to Climate Change | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Fresh, Ground and Surface Water Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity |
