Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities - Grant ID: LE0989072

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LE0989072

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

High throughput nitrogen analysis for ecological studies. Australian environments are unproductive partly because they contain little Nitrogen (N) and changes in atmospheric CO2 will exacerbate this. Furthermore, animals cannot extract all the N from the plants they eat. An assay has been developed that measures how much they can extract (available N) and it is intended to use it to measure habitat quality and the effects of climate change over large tracts of land. This requires thousands of N analyses. The equipment we are requesting - a LECO combustion analyser, allows us to analyse samples quickly and safely and uses fewer chemicals and much less water than do traditional machines.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2009

End Date: 31-12-2009

Funding Scheme: Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities

Funding Amount: $100,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Terrestrial Ecology | Conservation And Biodiversity | Ecology |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Climate change | Living resources (flora and fauna)

Other Keywords

Climate change | Conservation And Biodiversity | Ecology | Living resources (flora and fauna) | Terrestrial Ecology

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