Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP0882090
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
The conservation of widely distributed species: implications of differences between western and eastern koala populations. Koalas are an iconic species in Australia, generating $2.5 billion in tourist income alone. This project will be a first to test cross-regional variations in koala-habitat relationships, with implications for conservation of other species occupying broad geographical ranges. It will also predict the effect of future climate change on western koala populations living at the margin of their ecological tolerances. It will provide regional natural resource management bodies and state conservation agencies with a sound ecological framework to conserve western koalas in the long term. Regional communities will benefit from involvement by incorporating new conservation knowledge into sub-catchment and property management planning.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 06-2008
End Date: 06-2011
Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
Funding Amount: $459,804.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Landscape Ecology | Conservation And Biodiversity | Ecological Applications |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Climate change | Living resources (flora and fauna) | Remnant vegetation and protected conservation areas
