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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0343898
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Reconstructing landscapes for biodiversity: From predictive modelling to future scenarios. Many landscapes around the world have been effectively denuded of natural vegetation, causing precipitous declines in native biodiversity. Mitigation of such effects in the near/medium-term future requires substantial ecological advice. We will employ our skills developed in modelling distributions of species across landscapes based on terrain, soils and climate to assess alternative landscape-reconstruction scenarios. This links use of existing data sets for initial modelling, a validation phase for testing model reliability and for refining models, and a subsequent GIS-based modelling phase in which alternative options for reconstructing landscapes are evaluated for their effectiveness in sustaining landscape-scale native biodiversity.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 2003
End Date: 06-2006
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $300,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Terrestrial Ecology | Landscape Ecology | Conservation And Biodiversity | Environmental Science and Management |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Land and water management | Biological sciences | Rehabilitation/reafforestation
