Research Grant
[Cite as https://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP200100091]Researchers: David Suggett (Chief Investigator) , Jennifer Matthews (Chief Investigator) , Tim Kahlke (Chief Investigator) , William Leggat (Chief Investigator) , Kimberly Halsey (Partner Investigator)
Brief description Reef Breath Testing (RBT): exhaled volatile-gas biomarkers of coral health. This Project aims to uncover volatile gas "fingerprints" of coral reef taxa and how they are diagnostic of healthy reef functioning over space and time. All organisms emit distinct volatile gases via physiological fine-tuning and signalling as their environments change. Whilst coral reef taxa and coral reefs are hotspots for volatile gas emissions, which gases are produced, when and why, is entirely unexplored. This project unites a multidisciplinary team of experts to, for the first time, couple volatile gas assessment, metabolic physiology and functional genomics techniques to transform understanding of how key volatile gases underpin coral resilience to stress and disease, which is essential to improve coral reef ecosystem management.
Funding Amount $511,014
Funding Scheme Discovery Projects
- PURL : https://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP200100091
- ARC : DP200100091