Federation Fellowships - Grant ID: FF0456020

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/FF0456020

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Evaluating the adaptive potential of organisms to respond to environmental change. The program utilizes technological advances to develop a gene inventory for climatic change adaptation, using, as model system, the vinegar fly from divergent climates along eastern Australia. The inventory will result in new methods for monitoring climatic change impact on populations, and for testing adaptive potential of organisms from threatened habitats. A key hypothesis is that these organisms have restricted genetic options to counter environmental change, increasing extinction risk. The program investigates genetic adaptation to pollutants in midges, a key group for monitoring water health. By assessing evolutionary potential and DNA species markers, biological signatures of aquatic pollutants should result.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-03-2005

End Date: 27-02-2010

Funding Scheme: Federation Fellowships

Funding Amount: $1,519,710.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Population And Ecological Genetics | Global Change Biology | Genetics | Ecology And Evolution Not Elsewhere Classified

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Climate change | Integrated (ecosystem) assessment and management | Global climate change adaptation measures |

Other Keywords

Climate change | Ecology And Evolution Not Elsewhere Classified | Genetics | Global Change Biology | Global climate change adaptation measures | Integrated (ecosystem) assessment and management | Population And Ecological Genetics

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