Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP200100555
Funding Status
Active
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Funded Activity Summary
Escalating the arms race: Understanding when and how trees get really tall. Australia's giant Eucalypt trees are an amazing phenomenon and resource; underpinning unique ecosystems, rich in timber, stored carbon, and animal habitat. While tree height generally arises via an evolutionary arms race for light, the race has escalated dramatically in some locations and species. Using a computational framework that simulates adaptation driven by size-structured competition, this project will quantify how distinct factors-including climate, recruitment, and disturbance-enhance the race for light and can thereby explain the origins of Australia's giant Eucalypt. With calibrated models of species evolution, coupled with targeted fieldwork and big data, this project clarifies key forces shaping present and future vegetation.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 07-2020
End Date: 12-2023
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $483,977.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Evolutionary Impacts of Climate Change | Terrestrial Ecology | Ecology | Biological Adaptation
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Ecosystem Adaptation to Climate Change | Native Forests | Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity at Regional or Larger Scales |
