Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP170100152

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LP170100152

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Fauna, fuel and fire: effects of animals on bushfire risk. This project aims to determine the extent that animals influence fire regimes through effects on fuel load and characteristics. Minimising the risk of large, severe bushfires, while conserving native species is one of the greatest challenges facing managers of fire-prone ecosystems globally. Using a powerful combination of landscape-scale field observations, experimental manipulations of animal densities, and modelling, the project expects to quantify interactions between animals, bushfire fuel and fire regimes in south eastern Australian forests, woodlands and scrublands. This evidence should benefit the design of integrated, efficient, and complementary strategies for fire and fauna management in Australia’s extensive fire-prone ecosystems.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 09-04-2018

End Date: 30-06-2022

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $645,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Ecosystem Function | Environmental Science and Management | Environmental Management | Community Ecology |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Environmental Sciences | Natural Hazards in Forest and Woodlands Environments | Forest and Woodlands Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity

Other Keywords

Community Ecology | Ecosystem Function | Environmental Management | Environmental Science and Management | Expanding Knowledge in the Environmental Sciences | Forest and Woodlands Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity | Natural Hazards in Forest and Woodlands Environments

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