ARC Future Fellowships - Grant ID: FT0990983

Funded Activity Summary

Quantifying the effects of western colonisation on Great Barrier Reef molluscan communities. Dead shells provide a record of the pre-colonisation Great Barrier Reef (GBR) ecosystem. Using this record this research will determine what the GBR looked like before James Cook and the first fleet arrived in Australia. This study will also sample living molluscs to quantify the current state of these communities. Together these data will provide environment managers and stakeholders with the first quantitative estimates of human impacts on this world heritage ecosystem. This project will address the questions: Do protected areas return to a pre-colonial state or do they represent another non-natural state? What type of management scheme results in communities most similar to the pre-colonial state?

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-07-2010

End Date: 31-12-2014

Funding Scheme: ARC Future Fellowships

Funding Amount: $686,400.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Palaeoecology | Conservation And Biodiversity | Environmental Science and Management | Animal Systematics, Taxonomy And Phylogeny

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Living resources (incl. impacts of fishing on non-target species) | Integrated (ecosystem) assessment and management | Marine protected areas |

Other Keywords

Animal Systematics, Taxonomy And Phylogeny | Conservation And Biodiversity | Environmental Science and Management | Integrated (ecosystem) assessment and management | Living resources (incl. impacts of fishing on non-target species) | Marine protected areas | Palaeoecology

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