Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP160103436

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP160103436

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

To grow or to store: Do plants hedge their bets? This project aims to resolve a long-standing question about the function of perennial plants: how much of the carbon taken up by photosynthesis is used immediately for growth, and how much is kept in reserve as insurance against future stress? This question is important to our understanding of how plants respond to stresses such as severe drought, and yet lack of data and theoretical modelling currently hampers our ability to answer it. By applying novel data analysis and modelling tools to recent experimental results, the project plans to test hypotheses for how plants allocate carbon between growth and storage in response to stress. Insights from the project may underpin better management of Australia’s vulnerable ecosystems.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-03-2016

End Date: 30-06-2019

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $428,100.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Ecology | Ecosystem Function | Ecological Physiology | Global Change Biology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Ecosystem Adaptation to Climate Change | Native Forests | Forest and Woodlands Land Management |

Other Keywords

Ecological Physiology | Ecology | Ecosystem Adaptation to Climate Change | Ecosystem Function | Forest and Woodlands Land Management | Global Change Biology | Native Forests

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