Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0879971

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0879971

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Anatomy of a biodiversity hotspot: investigating the evolutionary and ecological basis of high plant diversity in southwestern Australia. Southwestern Australia - Australia's only global biodiversity hotspot - has an exceptionally rich flora but has suffered extensive habitat loss, so many rare plants are threatened with extinction. Further, this region is expected to suffer severely under projected climate change scenarios, lending urgency to efforts to describe and understand the regions plant biodiversity. This project will provide the first description and analysis of an important but hitherto little-known aspect of biodiversity, the evolutionary structure of ecological communities. This will enhance our understanding of how communities are assembled, providing a stronger scientific basis for sustainable management of the southwest's biodiversity.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 30-06-2008

End Date: 31-05-2013

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $710,571.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Terrestrial Ecology | Conservation And Biodiversity | Ecology | Plant Systematics, Taxonomy And Phylogeny

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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

Other Keywords

Climate change | Conservation And Biodiversity | Control of pests and exotic species | Ecology | Living resources (flora and fauna) | Plant Systematics, Taxonomy And Phylogeny | Terrestrial Ecology

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