Research Grant
[Cite as http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DE150100542]Researchers: Dr Martin Breed (Discovery Early Career Researcher Award)
Brief description Understanding adaptation of plants along environmental clines. This project aims to address a key debate on the relative roles of dispersal and selection on adaptation, testing how life history traits determine the magnitude of adaptation. Since dispersal should override selection, this project endeavours to show that plants that strongly disperse will display weaker signals of adaptation but a higher capacity to adapt. The project aims to test these predictions with ecological genomics and functional genetics at a multi-species scale across climate gradients in South Australia, using a novel design that separates dispersal (isolation-by-distance) from selection (isolation-by-ecology). This understanding will provide improved conservation planning that seeks to restore resilience to biological communities that are under increasing environmental pressures.
Funding Amount $355,000
Funding Scheme Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
- ARC : DE150100542
- PURL : http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DE150100542
