Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP150101571

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP150101571

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Extreme acid tolerance: Overcoming the challenges of life at low pH. This project aims to investigate tolerance to low pH freshwaters, focusing on the mechanisms that underpin acid tolerance, physiological plasticity, the interactions between low pH and other environmental variables (e.g. temperature), and the costs and/or trade-offs to living in such physiologically challenging environments. Low pH waters are toxic to most animals, yet some freshwater vertebrates have managed to colonise some of the lowest pH environments on Earth. In our rapidly changing world, this study is expected to provide an important fundamental understanding of the capacity of some organisms to flourish at environmental extremes and their ability to respond to increased variability both within and between environmental stressors.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2015

End Date: 30-12-2018

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $466,600.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Comparative Physiology | Animal Physiological Ecology | Ecology | Ecological Physiology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Fresh, Ground and Surface Water Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity |

Other Keywords

Animal Physiological Ecology | Comparative Physiology | Ecological Physiology | Ecology | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Fresh, Ground and Surface Water Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity

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