Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE170101349

Funding Activity

Website
https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DE170101349

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Mechanisms underlying crop pollinator effectiveness in agro-ecosystems. This project aims to understand how pollinators affect fruit quantity and quality. Worldwide, insect pollinators contribute to biodiversity and ecosystem services in production systems, but also cause yield variability in pollinator-dependent crops. Accounting for the combined outcomes of the amount, quality and timing of the pollen transferred by each pollinator visit is a critical but unexplored component of crop pollination ecology. This project will quantitatively assess the effectiveness of pollinator communities to determine the importance of pollinator community composition to maximising crop production. This project is expected to protect food resources and economically benefit Australia.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-09-2017

End Date: 31-08-2020

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $372,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Ecology | Ecosystem Function | Community Ecology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Farmland, Arable Cropland and Permanent Cropland Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity |

Other Keywords

Community Ecology | Ecology | Ecosystem Function | Farmland, Arable Cropland and Permanent Cropland Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity

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