Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0344023

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0344023

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Evaluating the influence of trophic connections between marine habitats on the effectiveness of Marine Protected Areas. Marine ecosystems are characterized by trophic subsidies: consumers forage between habitats, and ungrazed primary production is exported as drift or detritus. However, the trophic relationships we see today may in a sense be unnatural, because intensive fishing of consumers may have fundamentally altered them. We aim to evaluate the importance of the exchange of consumers and drift between seagrass and reef habitats in Australia and North America. We aim to find out whether fishing alters these processes by studying marine protected areas in both continents. This work will come at a crucial time for the implementation of Australia's MPA system.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 05-03-2003

End Date: 04-03-2006

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $235,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Marine And Estuarine Ecology (Incl. Marine Ichthyology) | Conservation And Biodiversity | Environmental Science and Management

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Integrated (ecosystem) assessment and management | Marine protected areas |

Other Keywords

Conservation And Biodiversity | Environmental Science and Management | Integrated (ecosystem) assessment and management | Marine And Estuarine Ecology (Incl. Marine Ichthyology) | Marine protected areas

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