Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP240100177

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP240100177

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Active

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Funded Activity Summary

What determines plant sensitivity to heat?: Individual to lifetime impacts. Temperature is a major determinant of the distribution of species and yet the capacity to predict the thermal sensitivity of plants is extremely limited. How vulnerability varies as a plant grows from seed to adult and produces more seed is a key question. Whether chronic warming exacerbates or ameliorates effects of extreme events, e.g. triggering the plant to enlist defensive strategies, is also an open question. This project will advance fundamental understanding of how thermal tolerance varies across species and over the plant life cycle and how it scales demographically to lifetime vulnerability. The work will yield a significant advance in our capacity to predict impacts of extreme heat events on plant performance and distribution.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 2024

End Date: 12-2026

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $631,377.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Terrestrial ecology | Ecological impacts of climate change and ecological adaptation | Plant biology | Plant physiology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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