Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0451401

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0451401

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Understanding and predicting the success of invasive plants: a leaf carbon strategy approach. Invasion of plant communities by exotic plants is a significant threat to biodiversity and ecosystem processes globally. This proposal seeks to understand strategies of invasive plants in novel environments both now and under predicted future conditions, using the framework of leaf carbon strategies. Comparative and experimental approaches will be used to understand leaf trait relationships of invasive compared with native species. This will contribute substantially to our understanding of global plant functional relationships, thereby enabling better prediction of potential invaders. The resulting data will also provide critical input for models of plant, ecosystem and biosphere responses to global change incorporating invasion dynamics.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2004

End Date: 31-12-2007

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $195,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Terrestrial Ecology | Conservation And Biodiversity | Environmental Science and Management | Global Change Biology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Control of pests and exotic species | Control of pests and exotic species | Control of pests and exotic species |

Other Keywords

Conservation And Biodiversity | Control of pests and exotic species | Environmental Science and Management | Global Change Biology | Terrestrial Ecology

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