Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0560985

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP0560985

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Conservation biology of the largest Australian freshwater tortoise, the broad-shelled tortoise, Chelodina expansa - rare and endangered or cryptic and secure? The Murray is a highly managed river, with flows controlled by catchments and diversions. The combined impacts of water resource development, habitat modification and introduced species are astonishingly diverse, and include extinctions of some fish and invertebrates and depression of populations of many other species. Australia's largest chelid turtle, the broad-shelled turtle, is a high-level consumer thought to be particularly sensitive to these changes. We will use an innovative combination of non-destructive technologies to investigate the conservation biology of this species in the Lower Murray, where it is regarded as rare and where its biology is virtually unknown to inform conservation management and restoration initiatives

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 02-2006

End Date: 12-2007

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $120,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Biogeography | Ecology | Population And Ecological Genetics | Freshwater Ecology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Living resources (flora and fauna) | Land and water management | Control of pests and exotic species |

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