Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0559935
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Heterogeneity and ecosystem function: The role of microphytobenthos and macrofauna in inducing spatial variability in biogeochemical processes and fluxes. Human disturbances such as eutrophication (nutrient enrichment) increasingly threaten the sustainable use of Australia's coastal seas. Management of threats such as eutrophication are usually based on observations at large spatial scales, but ecological processes underpinning nutrient dynamics occur at much smaller scales. This multi-disciplinary study will examine the relationship between processes mediated by small organisms (microscopic algae and burrowing animals), and large-scale nutrient dynamics pattern on sheltered coasts. Modern technologies will be used for monitoring the micro-scale processes, allowing models to be constructed to benefit both scientists and policy-makers alike.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 2005
End Date: 12-2007
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $240,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Marine And Estuarine Ecology (Incl. Marine Ichthyology) | Ecology | Natural Resource Management | Environmental Chemistry (Incl. Atmospheric Chemistry)
