Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP150104199

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP150104199

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

The legacy of rainfall patterns in dryland ecosystems. This project aims to use an experimental approach to determine how rainfall regime structures dryland communities and ecosystem properties and potential responses to altered rainfall regime. Ecosystem functioning in drylands is governed by complex interactions between microbes, invertebrates and plants. Biological activity however is constrained by the availability of water and altered rainfall regimes that could moderate how organisms interact, potentially causing trophic cascades and even ecosystem state changes. By linking observed responses with soil microbial functional attributes using newly developed molecular techniques the project seeks to provide a mechanistic insight into ecosystem responses to climate variability and extreme climatic events.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 19-06-2015

End Date: 30-04-2019

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $420,200.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Terrestrial Ecology | Ecology | Soil Biology | Community Ecology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Ecosystem Adaptation to Climate Change | Climate Variability (excl. Social Impacts) | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences |

Other Keywords

Climate Variability (excl. Social Impacts) | Community Ecology | Ecology | Ecosystem Adaptation to Climate Change | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Soil Biology | Terrestrial Ecology

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