Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0452495

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0452495

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Do pollution events facilitate biotic invasion in marine systems? This project aims to determine whether pollution affects the biological resistance of assemblages to invasion. The discharge of toxicants into coastal waters is an increasingly important source of disturbance that has the potential to make marine assemblages more susceptible to biotic invasion. The project will determine if pollution events facilitate the colonisation, persistence and spread of non-native species and how initial assemblage diversity modifies this response. The generality of several important ecological hypotheses developed in plant communities are tested in marine systems for the first time and extended to include the role of toxic disturbances.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 05-01-2004

End Date: 04-09-2007

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $225,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Marine And Estuarine Ecology (Incl. Marine Ichthyology) | Ecology | Environmental Impact Assessment | Environmental Management And Rehabilitation |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Control of pests and exotic species | Estuarine and lagoon areas | Rehabilitation of degraded coastal and estuarine areas

Other Keywords

Control of pests and exotic species | Ecology | Environmental Impact Assessment | Environmental Management And Rehabilitation | Estuarine and lagoon areas | Marine And Estuarine Ecology (Incl. Marine Ichthyology) | Rehabilitation of degraded coastal and estuarine areas

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