Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP160100161

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP160100161

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

A World Without Bees: simulating important agricultural insect pollinators. The project plans to develop a software model to assess the viability of crops under changes in pollinator populations, and recommend which floral traits should be breeding targets to ensure sustainable crops. Insects are essential to agriculture, but their populations are changing in poorly understood ways that are likely to affect human food supplies. This project plans to construct evolutionary agent-based models of change in crop-pollinating insects: honeybees, bumblebees, stingless bees and flies. It then plans to model how these population changes affect production, predicting floral traits to breed into crop plants for ongoing pollination success. Another expected outcome is a flexible plant–pollinator simulation of insect-specific visual perception, foraging behaviour, physiological factors and inter-species interactions.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 09-05-2016

End Date: 31-12-2021

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $610,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Artificial Life | Neural, Evolutionary and Fuzzy Computation | Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Information and Computing Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Farmland, Arable Cropland and Permanent Cropland Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity |

Other Keywords

Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing | Artificial Life | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Information and Computing Sciences | Farmland, Arable Cropland and Permanent Cropland Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity | Neural, Evolutionary and Fuzzy Computation

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