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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0880557
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Do costs of dispersal reduce connectivity in marine invertebrate populations? Current approaches to marine management - designing marine reserves, understanding pest incursions, and managing fisheries, acknowledge that marine animals exist in isolated local populations, connected by dispersal. Dispersal is crucial for local populations to persist or be managed sustainably, but our understanding remains poor and often limits our management. Most current approaches to estimating connectivity are adequate only if all dispersers are equally successful at establishing. Dispersal, however, is risky or costly, and we propose that these costs reduce the success of colonists from more distant populations. If this is correct, persistence of local populations may rely disproportionately on other nearby local populations.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 2008
End Date: 12-2011
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $396,194.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Marine And Estuarine Ecology (Incl. Marine Ichthyology) | Ecology
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Living resources (incl. impacts of fishing on non-target species) | Control of pests and exotic species |
