Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP160100098
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Australia's Distinctive Succulent Flora. The project plans to investigate why Australia, the driest vegetated continent, has no landscape dominated by large succulents but nevertheless supports a distinctive, diverse and widespread succulent flora. Focusing on terrestrial succulents and epiphytic orchids, the project plans to explore the evolution, assembly and biodiversity of Australia’s succulent flora, evaluating the roles of genetic composition, photosynthetic physiology, aridity, fire, soil nutrients and salinity in its historical expansion, and assessing the resilience of the assemblages to changing climate. Of particular interest will be how the most water-use efficient type of photosynthesis, crassulacean acid metabolism, is expressed across the succulent landscape.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 04-2016
End Date: 12-2019
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $364,400.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Plant Physiology | Plant Systematics and Taxonomy | Biogeography and Phylogeography | Evolutionary Biology
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity at Regional or Larger Scales |
