Research Grant
[Cite as https://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DE170101349]Researchers: Romina Rader (Discovery Early Career Researcher Award)
Brief description Mechanisms underlying crop pollinator effectiveness in agro-ecosystems. This project aims to understand how pollinators affect fruit quantity and quality. Worldwide, insect pollinators contribute to biodiversity and ecosystem services in production systems, but also cause yield variability in pollinator-dependent crops. Accounting for the combined outcomes of the amount, quality and timing of the pollen transferred by each pollinator visit is a critical but unexplored component of crop pollination ecology. This project will quantitatively assess the effectiveness of pollinator communities to determine the importance of pollinator community composition to maximising crop production. This project is expected to protect food resources and economically benefit Australia.
Funding Amount $372,000
Funding Scheme Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
- PURL : https://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DE170101349
- ARC : DE170101349