Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE170100599

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DE170100599

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Forecasting ecosystem collapse and recovery by tracking networks of species. This project aims to assess and predict ecosystem decline by measuring change in networks of interacting species. Efforts to prevent ecosystem collapse are failing. A focus on managing individual species ignores the fact that ecosystems function because species have complex associations with one another and the environment. This project will use methods from social networks, food-web theory and web-searching behaviour, to discover symptoms of declining ecosystems and find robust metrics that diagnose change in networks of co-occurring species. The intended outcome is to clarify the relationship between species interactions, co-occurrence and ecosystem decline, knowledge critical to ecosystem recovery.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 30-09-2017

End Date: 30-10-2021

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $372,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Ecosystem Function | Environmental Science and Management | Community Ecology | Conservation and Biodiversity

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Ecosystem Assessment and Management of Sparseland, Permanent Grassland and Arid Zone Environments | Ecosystem Assessment and Management at Regional or Larger Scales | Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity at Regional or Larger Scales |

Other Keywords

Community Ecology | Conservation and Biodiversity | Ecosystem Assessment and Management at Regional or Larger Scales | Ecosystem Assessment and Management of Sparseland, Permanent Grassland and Arid Zone Environments | Ecosystem Function | Environmental Science and Management | Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity at Regional or Larger Scales

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