Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0452835

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0452835

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Fish ear stones for monitoring changes in environmental conditions. The ear-stones (=otoliths) of territorial reef fish could provide environmental records over a great latitudinal range. Important environmental variation includes upwelling, riverine input, the southern oscillation and climate change. Laser mass-spectrometry will be used to resolve spatial and temporal variation in environmental conditions experienced in tropical and temperate waters over periods of up to 50 years. Experiments will be done to determine the duration of events (ie changes in water chemistry) that are reliably recorded. Environmental variation is known to influence fish populations, including commercial species, but data on frequency and spatial extent of these impacts are few.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 2004

End Date: 12-2006

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $210,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Marine And Estuarine Ecology (Incl. Marine Ichthyology) | Ecology | Biological Oceanography | Global Change Biology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Climate variability | Physical and chemical conditions |

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