Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP140100235

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LP140100235

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Dining with Dasyurids: Using Nutritional Geometry to Improve Diets for Captive Breeding Programs. Captive breeding programs are an important part of conservation and reintroduction plans for endangered Northern quolls and Tasmanian devils. This project aims to initiate new collaboration between the Charles Perkins Centre and Taronga Conservation Society to improve diets for captive breeding of marsupial carnivores using the framework of nutritional geometry. Specifically, the project aims to: quantify the macronutrient (carbohydrate, lipid and protein) targets and regulatory behaviour of marsupial carnivores; test explanations for why animals are prone to excess weight gain in captivity; and quantify changes in nutrient targets with reproduction. These results aims to be applied by Taronga to improve captive-diets for marsupial carnivore breeding programs.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 02-02-2015

End Date: 31-05-2017

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $284,500.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Ecology | Behavioural Ecology | Conservation and Biodiversity

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Animal Welfare | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity at Regional or Larger Scales |

Other Keywords

Animal Welfare | Behavioural Ecology | Conservation and Biodiversity | Ecology | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity at Regional or Larger Scales

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