Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP200103148

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP200103148

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Active

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Funded Activity Summary

Messing with their minds: using deception to improve pest management. This project aims to develop new approaches to improve wildlife management by showing how deceit and misinformation can alter decision-making in pest animals. Using wild house mice as a model, it will test new theory on how animals decide whether or not to interact with wildlife control devices, like traps and baits, which is critical to all pest control efforts. The expected outcomes include new pest control tools that make strategic use of misinformation to alter decision making, to reduce a pest's ability to damage important agricultural crops such as wheat, boost the attraction of lures to traps, and improve bait uptake. These outcomes should provide significant new options for vertebrate pest control in Australia and globally.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 30-06-2020

End Date: 31-12-2024

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $342,120.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Wildlife and Habitat Management | Ecological Applications | Crop and Pasture Protection (Pests, Diseases and Weeds) | Invasive Species Ecology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Control of Animal Pests, Diseases and Exotic Species in Farmland, Arable Cropland and Permanent Cropland Environments |

Other Keywords

Control of Animal Pests, Diseases and Exotic Species in Farmland, Arable Cropland and Permanent Cropland Environments | Crop and Pasture Protection (Pests, Diseases and Weeds) | Ecological Applications | Invasive Species Ecology | Wildlife and Habitat Management

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