Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE240100352

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DE240100352

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Funded Activity Summary

Reconstructing evolutionary history of termite collective nest construction. This project aims to ask and answer fundamental questions about how complex animal collective behaviour has evolved in the history of life. It combines the quantification of termite building behaviour and nest structures using a state-of-the-art video tracking technique with the latest molecular phylogenetics. This project expects to provide the first comprehensive information on termite collective building in a phylogenetic framework, which will be a showcase study of future studies on the evolution of complex phenotypes and resolve a debate over termite social evolution. Furthermore, it provides new knowledge of Australian native termite fauna as economically destructive pest insects.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2024

End Date: 31-12-2026

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $388,487.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Animal behaviour | Evolutionary ecology | Zoology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Other Keywords

Animal behaviour | Evolutionary ecology | Expanding Knowledge In the Biological Sciences | Zoology

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