Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0449417

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0449417

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Why isn’t the world full of mistletoe? An integrative approach to understanding dispersal, recruitment and distribution of parasitic plants. Parasitic plants are less affected by resource constraints than other plants, but they are characteristically rare in undisturbed habitats?an apparent paradox that challenges current thinking about ecological constraints. To determine which factors limit recruitment and distribution of parasitic plants, we will conduct integrative research on two mistletoes and a sandalwood in a structurally simple semi-arid shrubland, combining experimental germination trials and chemical analyses of hosts with ecological studies of seed vectors in a spatially-explicit framework. This study will also yield powerful insights into the general mechanisms underlying the relationships between life-history traits, species distributions and resource availability in dynamic landscapes.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 02-02-2004

End Date: 31-01-2007

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $255,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Landscape Ecology | Life Histories (Incl. Population Ecology) | Conservation And Biodiversity | Ecological Applications |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Integrated (ecosystem) assessment and management | Forestry not elsewhere classified | Living resources (flora and fauna)

Other Keywords

Conservation And Biodiversity | Ecological Applications | Forestry not elsewhere classified | Integrated (ecosystem) assessment and management | Landscape Ecology | Life Histories (Incl. Population Ecology) | Living resources (flora and fauna)

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