ARC Future Fellowships - Grant ID: FT160100113

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/FT160100113

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Australian and global plant diversity from first principles. This project aims to explain the composition of vegetation in Australia and worldwide using ecological and evolutionary first principles. Researchers have studied how climate shapes vegetation for centuries, but still lack a basic quantitative theory predicting what types of plants should be found where and why. Combining first principles models, statistics and large Australian data synthesis, this project will determine whether vegetation structure and diversity is predictable and thus improve predictive models. Predicting the long term effects of evolutionary adaptation and humans on ecosystems could enable the management of terrestrial carbon and underpin effective ecosystem management and restoration.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 24-04-2017

End Date: 23-04-2022

Funding Scheme: ARC Future Fellowships

Funding Amount: $802,332.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Evolutionary Impacts of Climate Change | Terrestrial Ecology | Ecology | Biological Adaptation

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Ecosystem Adaptation to Climate Change | Native Forests | Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity at Regional or Larger Scales |

Other Keywords

Biological Adaptation | Ecology | Ecosystem Adaptation to Climate Change | Evolutionary Impacts of Climate Change | Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity at Regional or Larger Scales | Native Forests | Terrestrial Ecology

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