Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP0989933
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
You are what you eat: can tissues of top predators which show sequential dietary change identify long-term trends in ecosystems? This project uses stable isotope signatures in the whiskers of top predators to determine foraging ecology. We aim to validate current stable isotopic models so this cost-effective tool can be used to examine large scale changes in food web dynamics in one of the world's climate hotspots in the Antarctic. Changes in the Antarctic directly impact the Australian community as our climate is affected by changes in Antarctica. As this project is part of an International Polar Year Program, Impact of CLImate induced glacial melting on marine and terrestric COastal communities on a gradient along the Western Antarctic PENinsula (ClicOPEN), it strengthens Australia's international scientific links and exposes Australia's future scientists to internationally collaborative research which is of global significance.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 09-2009
End Date: 08-2013
Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
Funding Amount: $300,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Animal Nutrition | Biological And Medical Chemistry | Global Change Biology | Animal Production
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Integrated (ecosystem) assessment and management | Living resources (flora and fauna) |
