Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0877585

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0877585

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

How do foraging herbivores negotiate the twin perils of plant toxins and predators? Our research uses a new framework which links the costs of both plant toxins and predation risk to determine their effects on individual foraging herbivores. This will enable a new way of analysing and predicting the impact of changes to habitat diversity on native herbivores, and the impact of invasive alien herbivore and predator species on natural ecosystems and in human crop production. This is extremely valuable in today's economic and social climate, when management must be underpinned by evidence of impact and by quantification of costs and benefits of mitigation.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 14-02-2008

End Date: 31-12-2013

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $255,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Terrestrial Ecology | Conservation And Biodiversity | Environmental Science and Management | Wildlife And Habitat Management

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Control of pests and exotic species | Living resources (flora and fauna) |

Other Keywords

Conservation And Biodiversity | Control of pests and exotic species | Environmental Science and Management | Living resources (flora and fauna) | Terrestrial Ecology | Wildlife And Habitat Management

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