Research Grant
[Cite as https://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP150101571]Researchers: Professor Craig E Franklin (Chief Investigator) , Professor Craig Franklin (Chief Investigator) , Professor Craig Franklin (Chief Investigator)
Brief description Extreme acid tolerance: Overcoming the challenges of life at low pH. This project aims to investigate tolerance to low pH freshwaters, focusing on the mechanisms that underpin acid tolerance, physiological plasticity, the interactions between low pH and other environmental variables (e.g. temperature), and the costs and/or trade-offs to living in such physiologically challenging environments. Low pH waters are toxic to most animals, yet some freshwater vertebrates have managed to colonise some of the lowest pH environments on Earth. In our rapidly changing world, this study is expected to provide an important fundamental understanding of the capacity of some organisms to flourish at environmental extremes and their ability to respond to increased variability both within and between environmental stressors.
Funding Amount $466,600
Funding Scheme Discovery Projects
- PURL : https://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP150101571
- ARC : DP150101571