Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0771427

Funding Activity

Website
https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0771427

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Water-use efficiency of Australian tropical trees: mechanistic analysis at multiple scales. The proposed research will provide valuable information about the physiological functioning of trees in northern Australia. Experiments will elucidate mechanisms that can result in variation in water-use efficiency among different tree species. Such a mechanistic understanding will have multiple benefits: (1) results will be able to be incorporated into process-based models of carbon and water cycling in the north-Australian landscape; (2) they will provide valuable information for land managers interested in optimizing both plant biomass production and water resource management; and (3) they will provide a critical test of proxy methods for identifying high water-use efficiency in taxonomically diverse tree species.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 31-10-2007

End Date: 30-10-2010

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $270,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Terrestrial Ecology | Plant Biology | Global Change Biology | Plant Physiology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Land and water management | Native forests | Living resources (flora and fauna) |

Other Keywords

Global Change Biology | Land and water management | Living resources (flora and fauna) | Native forests | Plant Biology | Plant Physiology | Terrestrial Ecology

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