Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0449427

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0449427

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Local and regional investigations into perturbations of marine habitat. Surprising changes to coastal ecology are forecast as increasing physical stresses (e.g. nutrient and sediment runoff) initiate changes to habitat. Lack of information about perturbations remains a major gap in marine ecology and coastal management. Multifactorial experiments will examine perturbations to one of temperate Australia's most widespread subtidal habitats (kelp forests) to test predictions derived from ecological theory. Tests focus on (1) models about abrupt switches of habitat to contrasting states, and (2) responses among regions bearing striking differences in consumer control. These trans-Australian tests may change the way we view one of the world's most extensive temperate coastlines.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 2004

End Date: 12-2011

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $900,000.00

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) | Physical and chemical conditions | Land and water management |

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