Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0455776

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LP0455776

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

How to stop a range expansion: A molecular ecological examination of the European starling. This project is a test-case for a new integrated proactive management of invading pest species. The partner industries are responsible for controlling European starling invasions that threaten agriculture and Australia's only internationally-recognised terrestrial biodiversity hotspot. This project combines traditional ecology, novel molecular approaches, and new statistics to establish source population(s), and disperser characteristics. This will enable a focused control effort, and training of a graduate student and partner industries in this approach. This project is of great significance to rural Australia, and falls within several research priority areas: protection from pests (RP4, PG2) and an environmentally sustainable Australia (RP1, PG2,3).

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2004

End Date: 30-06-2008

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $144,170.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Conservation And Biodiversity | Environmental Science and Management | Population And Ecological Genetics | Zoology Not Elsewhere Classified |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Control of pests and exotic species | Remnant vegetation and protected conservation areas

Other Keywords

Conservation And Biodiversity | Control of pests and exotic species | Environmental Science and Management | Population And Ecological Genetics | Remnant vegetation and protected conservation areas | Zoology Not Elsewhere Classified

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