Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP160103765

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP160103765

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Closing the carbon cycle: an ecological understanding of wood decay. The project aims to understand the controls on the return of carbon to the atmosphere within forests, especially focusing on this problem from a microbial perspective. Microbial dynamics and wood decay are crucially important for the global carbon cycle. What the field is lacking is a trait-based ecology of wood decomposers. The project plans to examine the interactions among fungal and oomycete endophytes and decomposers through a series of experiments. The expected outcome of this project is a clear understanding of the role of traits in wood decomposer communities, especially their influence on priority effects, competitive hierarchies, and the resultant wood decay rate.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2016

End Date: 01-12-2021

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $324,700.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Mycology | Microbiology | Community Ecology |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Forest and Woodlands Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity

Other Keywords

Community Ecology | Forest and Woodlands Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity | Microbiology | Mycology

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