Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP100100740

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LP100100740

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Surviving in a toad-colonised landscape: manipulating predator behaviour to reduce the impact of the cane toad invasion. Invasive species pose a major threat to biodiversity; and within Australia, cane toads are widely viewed as one of the biggest such problems. Vigorous attempts at toad control have failed to slow the invasion front, and toads are now entering the Kimberley region. If we can’t stop the toads, are there other ways to reduce the numbers of native predators killed by eating these poisonous invaders? Predators given nausea-inducing chemicals with their first toad meal rapidly learn to avoid cane toads as prey, enabling them to survive even where toads are present. The study will develop those methods for several vulnerable native species, including techniques for deployment of aversion-inducing baits in advance of the toad invasion.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 10-06-2010

End Date: 30-06-2015

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $625,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Terrestrial Ecology | Ecological Applications | Invasive Species Ecology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Control of pests and exotic species |

Other Keywords

Control of pests and exotic species | Ecological Applications | Invasive Species Ecology | Terrestrial Ecology

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