Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP170101003

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP170101003

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Funded Activity Summary

Ecological role of sleep in maintaining optimal brain function in birds. This project aims to explain the function of sleep. Sleep is thought to maintain optimal brain functioning to support waking cognition. Nearly all sleep research is laboratory-based, which fails to realistically capture how animals benefit from sleep. Ecologists treat sleep as a simple behaviour, instead of as a heterogeneous neurophysiological state, while neuroscientists generally fail to appreciate the insights ecological and evolutionary systems offer. This project adopts a cross-disciplinary approach, bringing together animal behaviour, ecology, evolution, anthropogenic disturbance and sleep neurophysiology. By doing so, the project will add a new dimension of understanding on the functions of sleep.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2017

End Date: 31-12-2022

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $138,074.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Animal Neurobiology | Ecology | Behavioural Ecology | Ecological Physiology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences |

Other Keywords

Animal Neurobiology | Behavioural Ecology | Ecological Physiology | Ecology | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences

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