Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE200101286

Funded Activity Summary

Conserving the evolutionary processes that generate coral reef biodiversity. Coral reefs have evolved to become the most biodiverse marine ecosystem we know. They now face an uncertain future due to escalating human impacts and this project aims to investigate how these disturbances change the evolutionary processes that generate and maintain life on the reef. Using an interdisciplinary approach, this project seeks to create new knowledge and demonstrate how evolutionary theory can be used to advance biodiversity conservation. Other expected outcomes include developing new techniques and an enhanced capacity to solve conservation problems through cross-disciplinary and cross-institutional collaborations. This should benefit the conservation of Australia’s coral reef biodiversity through improved management policies.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 13-01-2020

End Date: 12-01-2023

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $425,118.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Marine and Estuarine Ecology (incl. Marine Ichthyology) | Speciation and Extinction | Conservation and Biodiversity | Evolutionary Biology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Ecosystem Adaptation to Climate Change | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Marine Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity |

Other Keywords

Conservation and Biodiversity | Ecosystem Adaptation to Climate Change | Evolutionary Biology | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Marine Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity | Marine and Estuarine Ecology (incl. Marine Ichthyology) | Speciation and Extinction

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