Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0453361

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0453361

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Solar radiation, coral bleaching and climate change. Corals reefs like the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) underpin approximately $2 billion annually in sustainable tourism and fisheries. Warming of Australia's tropical seas, however, has increased mass coral bleaching/mortality and is placing reefs like the GBR at increasing risk. Solar radiation (PAR, UVR) plays an important influence on the biological outcome of thermal stress. Understanding the role of solar radiation is critical if we are to understand the changes that will occur on coral reefs as temperatures increase. This multidisciplinary international team will define and model the role of solar radiation on thermal stress at local, regional and global scales.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2004

End Date: 31-12-2006

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $470,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Invertebrate Biology | Marine And Estuarine Ecology (Incl. Marine Ichthyology) | Ecology | Animal Physiology—Cell

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Climate change | Living resources (incl. impacts of fishing on non-target species) | Marine protected areas |

Other Keywords

Animal Physiology—Cell | Climate change | Ecology | Invertebrate Biology | Living resources (incl. impacts of fishing on non-target species) | Marine And Estuarine Ecology (Incl. Marine Ichthyology) | Marine protected areas

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