Research Grant
[Cite as http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DE170101524]Researchers: Oscar Serrano (Discovery Early Career Researcher Award)
Brief description Past and future dynamics in coastal ecosystems. This project aims to understand how humans and nature affect coastal ecosystems. Globally, billions of dollars are spent on understanding ecosystem services and responses to human and natural pressures, but contemporary datasets’ short time-span makes them inadequate, since ecosystems change at multiple spatial and temporal scales. This project will use seagrass archives to reconstruct the history of coastal ecosystems over millennia, identifying baseline conditions, the time-course of ecological change, cycles and thresholds of ecosystem dynamics driven by human and natural forces, and determining their role as biogeochemical sinks. Intended outcomes are to manage ecological change and remove constraints on sustainable coastal development.
Funding Amount $372,000
Funding Scheme Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
- ARC : DE170101524
- PURL : http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DE170101524
