Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0665743

Funded Activity Summary

Identifying and creating essential habitat for rare Australian intertidal molluscs. Coastal development in Australia causes major changes to natural habitats. Obligations to conserve biodiversity are impossible without reliable information about how animals respond to habitat and how best to restore damaged habitat. Current management treats habitats as large-scale units and ignores fine-scale use of habitat by animals. This project will provide essential understanding to guide policy about coastal conservation, by providing ecologically realistic understanding of associations between rare invertebrates and habitat. New protocols to measure these associations and success of restoration, will be applicable to any rare species in any complex habitat, increasing present capabilities for conservation.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 27-02-2006

End Date: 01-09-2008

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $139,000.00

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 | Environmental Management And Rehabilitation |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Living resources (flora and fauna) | Estuarine and lagoon areas | Rehabilitation of degraded coastal and estuarine areas

Other Keywords

Conservation And Biodiversity | Environmental Management And Rehabilitation | Environmental Science and Management | Estuarine and lagoon areas | Living resources (flora and fauna) | Marine And Estuarine Ecology (Incl. Marine Ichthyology) | Rehabilitation of degraded coastal and estuarine areas

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