Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0235474

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LP0235474

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Tree water use and amelioration of dryland salinity. Dryland salinity is a huge problem for large areas of Australia. One proposal for ameliorating dryland salinity is to plant trees in upslope sites in the landscape. Such planted forests reduce movement of water through the landscape, thereby reducing mobilisation and discharge of stored salts downslope onto agricultural and sensitive riparian areas. This project will investigate tree water use in a native forest, compare it with a planted forest in the same location and investigate fundamental relationships among climate, tree size, canopy area and water use. The outcome of this project is a deep mechanistic understanding of the efficacy of trees for salinity abatement.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 30-04-2003

End Date: 30-04-2006

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $67,635.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Landscape Ecology | Ecological Applications | Plant Physiology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Consumption patterns, population issues and the environment | Native forests |

Other Keywords

Consumption patterns, population issues and the environment | Ecological Applications | Landscape Ecology | Native forests | Plant Physiology

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