Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0881765

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0881765

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Explaining forest responses to rising carbon-dioxide concentrations at stand scale using a new, simple model of plant carbon economy. Australia is undergoing large changes in [CO2] and rainfall patterns, with 20% decreases in annual rainfall across southern Australia over the past 30 years, and large increases in north-western Australia. The impacts of rising [CO2] and altered rainfall must be factored into Australia's environmental and water-catchment management strategies. The outcome of this project will be a new simplified forest model that has been validated for Australia's leading climate-change experiment on forests, the Hawkesbury Forest Experiment, which includes both CO2 and watering treatments. The model will be readily transferable to new sites and at regional scale, so it can be applied as a tool for future management of Australia's forests.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 20-01-2008

End Date: 01-06-2011

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $318,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Nutrition And Physiology | Natural Resource Management | Other Biological Sciences | Global Change Biology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Forestry | Land and water management | Global climate change adaptation measures |

Other Keywords

Forestry | Global Change Biology | Global climate change adaptation measures | Land and water management | Natural Resource Management | Nutrition And Physiology | Other Biological Sciences

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