Research Grant
[Cite as https://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/FT130101068]Researchers: Prof Luciano Beheregaray (Future Fellowship )
Brief description Evolution, adaptation and resilience of Australian freshwater fishes. This project will integrate comparative ecological genomics (in the wild and in the lab), phenotypic data and spatially-explicit modelling approaches to assess adaptation and vulnerability of aquatic biodiversity to environmental change. It focuses on a family of Australian freshwater fishes that evolved in response to hydrological disturbance and shows contemporary patterns of biodiversity shaped by hydroclimatic variation and anthropogenic pressures. The project expects to disclose a positive correlation between family-wide adaptive capacity and variance in ecological disturbance. This work will address fundamental and novel questions about factors shaping adaptation and resilience along naturally and anthropogenically disturbed ecosystems.
Funding Amount $872,160
Funding Scheme ARC Future Fellowships
- PURL : https://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/FT130101068
- ARC : FT130101068