Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP150103414

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP150103414

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Understanding adaptation to improve conservation of Australian flora. Using the Australian flora as our model, this project aims to tackle a central issue of evolution and conservation - what drives species adaptation? Since dispersal should override selection in populations, we predict that plants that are good dispersers will display weak signals of adaptation, but a higher capacity to adapt, than poorer dispersers. From these expectations we plan to develop a new adaptation guild classification, and test predictions using ecological genomics and functional genetics at a continental and multi-species scale. In addition to progressing a central tenet of evolutionary biology, this project aims to improve seed sourcing and biodiversity management, readily applicable to plants that can be quickly classified by life history traits.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 04-2015

End Date: 10-2021

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $373,300.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Population, Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics | Conservation and Biodiversity | Genetics | Biological Adaptation

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Ecosystem Adaptation to Climate Change | Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity at Regional or Larger Scales | Forest and Woodlands Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity |

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