Australian Laureate Fellowships - Grant ID: FL100100066

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/FL100100066

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

New approaches for pest control and maintaining healthy environments under climate change. Natural environments are rapidly changing due to climate and human population pressure, affecting food supply and natural heritage. Insects and other invertebrates perform essential services like pollination, pest control and soil turnover, and provide food for wildlife. These services are under threat, and ways of maintaining them and protecting biodiversity need to be developed. This project will identify the genetic and evolutionary mechanisms that insects use to deal with environmental changes and the processes that promote evolutionary resilience to safeguard environmental services. This should lead to guidelines for sustainable agricultural production and biodiversity protection in threatened environments like the Australian Alps.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-09-2010

End Date: 31-12-2016

Funding Scheme: Australian Laureate Fellowships

Funding Amount: $1,523,582.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Zoology | Invertebrate Biology | Population, Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Ecosystem Adaptation to Climate Change | Urban and Industrial Water Management | Control of Plant Pests, Diseases and Exotic Species in Farmland, Arable Cropland and Permanent Cropland Environments |

Other Keywords

Control of Plant Pests, Diseases and Exotic Species in Farmland, Arable Cropland and Permanent Cropland Environments | Ecosystem Adaptation to Climate Change | Invertebrate Biology | Population, Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics | Urban and Industrial Water Management | Zoology

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