Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP170103410

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP170103410

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Optimal photosynthetic traits on ecological time-scales. This project aims to understand how soils and climate shape plant ecological strategies for nutrient and water use in photosynthesis. Terrestrial biosphere models (including ecosystem, land surface and vegetation models) are based on a biochemical model for photosynthesis that accurately represents processes on physiological time-scales but lacks the ecological-evolutionary perspective needed to understand species’ adaptations along geographic gradients of soils and climate. This project will integrate theory based on microeconomic and optimality principles with empirical analysis of local- and global-scale trait datasets. This knowledge is intended to form the core of a ‘next-generation’ global vegetation model. This will allow government agencies to discover the likely effects of future climate and carbon dioxide changes on Australian vegetation structure, function and composition, forest productivity, and biodiversity.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 30-06-2017

End Date: 25-12-2020

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $328,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Terrestrial Ecology | Ecological Impacts of Climate Change | Ecology |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Ecosystem Adaptation to Climate Change | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity at Regional or Larger Scales

Other Keywords

Ecological Impacts of Climate Change | Ecology | Ecosystem Adaptation to Climate Change | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity at Regional or Larger Scales | Terrestrial Ecology

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