Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP160100661

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP160100661

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Genetic rescue, restoration and adaptation. This project aims to evaluate a promising but rarely used method of population recovery by genetically rescuing populations of two threatened Australian mammals: the mountain pygmy possum and the eastern barred bandicoot. Despite our best efforts to curb biodiversity loss, extinction rates are increasing and Australia is expected to lose a substantial proportion of its unique endemic fauna over the next 20–50 years. By tracking the phenotypic and underlying genomic changes that occur when a population undergoes a genetic rescue, the project aims to create data of interest to conservation biology.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2016

End Date: 31-03-2019

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $342,300.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Environmental Science and Management | Population, Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics | Conservation and Biodiversity | Biological Adaptation

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Mountain and High Country Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity at Regional or Larger Scales |

Other Keywords

Biological Adaptation | Conservation and Biodiversity | Environmental Science and Management | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity at Regional or Larger Scales | Mountain and High Country Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity | Population, Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics

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