{"links":{"self":"http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DE260100224"},"data":{"type":"grant-details","id":"DE260100224","attributes":{"code":"DE260100224","administering-organisation":"Adelaide University","announcement-administering-organisation":"The University of Adelaide","scheme-name":"Discovery Early Career Researcher Award","grant-status":"Active","funding-commencement-year":2026,"years-funded":3,"project-start-date":"2026-04-01","anticipated-end-date":"2029-03-31","grant-summary":"Safeguarding Australia's most threatened plants in a drier and hotter world. This project aims to use physiologically-based models to assess threatened plants' risk of mortality in response to the combined effects of droughts and heatwaves. This is a critical issue in Australia, where climate change is intensifying hotter droughts and increasing extinction risks for many species. By disentangling drought/heat impacts on mature and young trees’ physiology, this study expects to better predict when, where and which species will experience mortality. Project outcomes will benefit tree-planting initiatives, by selecting appropriate species/sites; policy makers, by incorporating climate-change risk into conservation planning; and all Australians, by ensuring a future for our unique species in a drier and hotter world.","funding-current":472934.00,"funding-at-announcement":468999,"investigators-current":[{"title":"Dr","firstName":"Ilaine","familyName":"Silveira Matos","roleName":"Discovery Early Career Researcher Award","roleCode":"DECRA","isFellowship":true,"orcidIdentifier":"0000-0001-5557-5133 "}],"investigators-at-announcement":[{"title":"Dr","firstName":"Ilaine","familyName":"Silveira Matos","roleName":"Discovery Early Career Researcher Award","roleCode":"DECRA","isFellowship":true,"orcidIdentifier":"0000-0001-5557-5133 "}],"organisations-current":[{"organisationName":"Adelaide University","roleName":"Administering Organisation","state":"SA"}],"organisations-at-announcement":[{"organisationName":"The University of Adelaide","roleName":"Administering Organisation","state":"SA"}],"field-of-research":[{"isPrimary":true,"code":"3103","name":"Ecology","type":"FOR20"},{"isPrimary":false,"code":"310303","name":"Ecological Physiology","type":"FOR20"},{"isPrimary":false,"code":"410102","name":"Ecological Impacts of Climate Change and Ecological Adaptation","type":"FOR20"},{"isPrimary":false,"code":"410401","name":"Conservation and Biodiversity","type":"FOR20"}],"socio-economic-objective":[{"code":"180604","name":"Rehabilitation Or Conservation of Terrestrial Environments","type":"SEO20"},{"code":"190102","name":"Ecosystem Adaptation to Climate Change","type":"SEO20"},{"code":"190504","name":"Effects of Climate Change on Australia (Excl. Social Impacts)","type":"SEO20"}],"international-collaboration":["England","France","Panama","United States of America"],"lief-register":[],"achievement-summary":null,"national-interest-test-statement":"Australia’s rate of species extinction is one of the highest in the modern world. With climate change leading to hotter droughts, even some of Australia's iconic plants are now at high risk for extinction. This study will be the first to investigate how elevated temperature combined with droughts affects threatened plants’ physiology at different life stages. This new knowledge will be incorporated into mechanistic models to more robustly predict the risk of mortality of threatened trees and shrubs now and into the future. Project outcomes will support science-based and cost-effective conservation management practices, thus reducing expenses associated with the preservation of threatened species. This project will benefit Australia by providing the knowledge and data to help make environmental and climate related decisions. It will directly contribute to the national Research Priority area of “Protecting and restoring Australia’s environment”, and to Australia's zero-extinction target. Results will be disseminated amongst landowners, natural resource managers, and conservationists via web tools and booklets. This will assist stakeholders in identifying priority species for management intervention, and locations for the establishment of climate-resilient populations. The creation of a threatened species section in the University’s arboretum, will raise community awareness of the two global issues tackled in this project: climate change and biodiversity loss."}}}