Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE170100601

Funded Activity Summary

Incorporating developmental plasticity into models of species distributions. This project aims to develop a generalizable framework for predicting effects of environmental variability on organisms’ developmental strategies, using anuran tadpoles as a test case. This framework will reveal how environmental variability influences geographic variation in developmental strategies, and provide tools to account for that variation in mechanistic models of species distributions. These tools are expected to increase the capacity to predict extinction risk in changing environments, and be amenable to any taxon or environment, providing a solid foundation for understanding the evolution of life-history strategies in variable environments.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 30-06-2017

End Date: 31-12-2020

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $372,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Population Ecology | Ecological Impacts of Climate Change | Ecology | Ecological Physiology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Effects of Climate Change and Variability on Australia (excl. Social Impacts) | Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity at Regional or Larger Scales | Fresh, Ground and Surface Water Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity |

Other Keywords

Ecological Impacts of Climate Change | Ecological Physiology | Ecology | Effects of Climate Change and Variability on Australia (excl. Social Impacts) | Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity at Regional or Larger Scales | Fresh, Ground and Surface Water Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity | Population Ecology

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