Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0877722
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Spatially integrated estimates of landscape water fluxes at several contrasting sites. Woodlands transpire large amounts (> 80 % of rainfall) of water into the atmosphere and this water is lost from the catchment. Australia experiences large annual and seasonal variations in rainfall. Water and catchment managers need to estimate how much water is transpired, especially as climate and land-use practices change, as this determines how much water is available for drinking, use in mining, forestry, irrigation, and for ecosystem health purposes. This project is the first to combine the use of scintillometry to compare spatially averaged rates of water use with development of a model to predict landscape water use. By using 4 contrasting ecosystems we shall provide a deep understanding of the controls of vegetation water use.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 02-2008
End Date: 06-2011
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $241,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Plant Biology | Plant Physiology | Groundwater Hydrology | Biological Mathematics
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Native forests | Remnant vegetation and protected conservation areas |
