Project ID |
Title |
Leader |
Institution |
|
Period |
|
HSF 12/6 |
Extreme reproductive conflict: sexual cannibalism, female deception and the evolution of male mate choice |
K Barry |
Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University |
$48,843 |
Jul '12 - Jul '15 |
|
HSF 13/2 |
Specialisation in mycorrhiza of orchids across temperate Australian terrestrial orchid genera |
N Swarts |
Royal Tasmanian Botanic Gardens |
$78,000 |
Jul '13 - Jul '16 |
|
HSF 13/5 |
Plant hubs, plantbugs and lacebugs: coevolution of emu bush and sap-sucking insects |
G Cassis |
School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales |
$81,000 |
Jul '13 - Jul '16 |
|
HSF 13/9 |
Speciation in the mountains: phylogenomics of the alpine grasshopper genus Kosciuscola |
N Tatarnic |
Western Australian Museum |
$51,000 |
Jul '13 - Jul '16 |
|
HSF 13/13 |
Range contraction of kelp forests and tropicalisation of Australia's temperate marine environments |
T Wernberg |
UWA Oceans Institute & School of Plant Biology, University of Western Australia |
$84,000 |
Jul '13 - Jul '16 |
|
HSF 13/14 |
Survival after arrival: how post-settlement mortality shapes population connectivity and climate change resilience in a coastal marine fish |
C Riginos |
School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland |
$81,000 |
Jul '13 - Jul '16 |
|
HSF 14/1 |
Is woody shrub encroachment a legacy of mammal declines? |
M Letnic |
School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Science, University of New South Wales |
$57,000 |
Jul '14 - Jul '17 |
|
HSF 14/2 |
Identification and characterisation of new plant peptide hormones that control legume nodulation and nitrogen fixation |
B Ferguson |
School of Agriculture & Food Sciences, The University of Queensland |
$83,500 |
Jul '14 - Jul '17 |
|
HSF 14/3 |
Prey that frighten their predators: deimatic display in a brightly coloured Australian alpine katydid |
K Umbers |
School of Science & Health, Western Sydney University |
$58,000 |
Jul '14 - Jul '17 |
|
HSF 14/4 |
The dark side of light: species and community level impact of artificial night lighting |
T Jones |
Department of Zoology, The University of Melbourne |
$76,600 |
Jul '14 - Jul '17 |
|
HSF 14/6 |
Plotting the Pilbara's thermalscape for conservation of climate sensitive species |
J Gollan |
School of the Environment, University of Technology, Sydney |
$81,600 |
Jul '14 - Jul '17 |
|
HSF 14/8 |
Evolutionary investigations into insect olfaction and host choice using a mosquito model system |
N Beebe |
School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland |
$78,600 |
Jul '14 - Jul '17 |
|
HSF 14/9 |
Mining genomes to understand evolution of the iconic Australian eucalypts |
T Schuster |
Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne |
$72,500 |
Jul '14 - Jul '17 |
|
HSF 14/10 |
Enhancing conservation and cultural knowledge through orchids of Papua New Guinea |
J Lynch |
Institute for Applied Ecology, The University of Canberra |
$75,000 |
Jul '14 - Jul '17 |
|
HSF 15/1 |
Communication and misinformation: Coevolutionary dynamics in a multi-parasite system |
W Feeney |
School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland |
$76,620 |
Jul '15 - Jul '18 |
|
HSF 15/2 |
The role of the mitochondrial genome in promoting adaptation to climate change |
D Dowling |
School of Biological Sciences, Monash University |
$81,120 |
Jul '15 - Jul '18 |
|
HSF 15/3 |
Can landscape structure enhance the resilience of biodiversity to climatic extremes? Insights from the Millennium Drought |
D Nimmo |
Institute for Land, Water & Society, Charles Sturt University |
$86,210 |
Jul '15 - Jul '18 |
|
HSF 15/4 |
Understanding how plants can sustain biomass production under saline growth conditions |
S Persson |
School of Biosciences, The University of Melbourne |
$79,100 |
Jul '15 - Jul '18 |
|
HSF 15/5 |
Counting and tracking cryptic wildlife in mountainous New Guinea for community conservation management and environmental assessment |
S Donnellan |
South Australian Museum |
$81,800 |
Jul '15 - Jul '18 |
|
HSF 15/6 |
A new obligate mutual pollination system involving Boronia (Rutaceae, Sapindales) and Heliozelidae (Adeloidea, Lepidoptera) |
A Kallies |
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute |
$74,200 |
Jul '15 - Jul '18 |
|
HSF 15/7 |
How will savanna tree populations respond to fire management? |
B Murphy |
Research Insitute for the Environment & Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University |
$58,500 |
Jul '15 - Jul '18 |
|
HSF 15/8 |
The genomic origin of species: a comparative study in the Australian Meliphagoidea |
L Joseph |
CSIRO National Research Collections Australia |
$58,800 |
Jul '15 - Jul '17 |
|
HSF 15/9 |
Taxonomy and population structure of commercially important coastal Loliginid squids in eastern Australian waters |
K Hall |
New South Wales Department of Primary Industries |
$81,800 |
Jul '15 - Jul '18 |
|
HSF 15/10 |
Tail photoreception: discovering a novel sensory system in Australian sea snakes |
K Sanders |
School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide |
$42,100 |
Jul '15 - Jul '17 |
|
HSF 15/11 |
Applying lessons from nature: Oxidative stress tolerance in the wild ancestors of wheat |
K Soole |
School of Biological Sciences, Flinders University |
$71,800 |
Jul '15 - Jul '18 |
|
HSF 15/12 |
More than a burning issue: Does grass invasion disrupt plant-animal interactions and threaten persistence of semi-arid woodland communities? |
C Schlesinger |
School of Environment, Charles Darwin University |
$53,200 |
Jul '15 - Jul '18 |
|
HSF 15/13 |
Exploration and conservation of microbial and chemical diversity in polar deserts of Eastern Antarctica |
B Ferrari |
School of Biotechnology & Biomolecular Sciences, Univeristy of New South Wales |
$80,100 |
Jul '15 - Jul '18 |
|
HSF 15/14 |
Resolving the taxonomic status of ecologically keystone and threatened bats in New Guinea |
K Armstrong |
South Australian Museum |
$84,800 |
Jul '15 - Jul '18 |
|
HSF 16/1 |
Into the wild: methylonics and quantitative genetics in natural populations of Australian social bees |
L Holman |
School of Biosciences, University of Melbourne |
$48,700 |
Jul '16 - Jul '18 |
|
HSF 16/2 |
Exploiting flavonoid diversity in legumes to improve nitrogen-fixing symbiosis |
U Mathesius |
Research School of Biology, Australian National University |
$60,000 |
Jul '16 - Jul '19 |
|
HSF 16/3 |
Investigation and mitigation of reduced fecundity due to infectious disease in the endangered Australian sea lion, N. cinerea |
R Gray |
Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, University of Sydney |
$57,590 |
Jul '16 - Jul '19 |
|
HSF 16/4 |
Orchid phylogenomics: Diversification, evolution and systematics of the hyperdiverse subtribe Bulbophylinae |
K Schulte |
CSIRO National Research Collections |
$85,100 |
Jul '16 - Jul '19 |
|
HSF 16/5 |
Is groundwater the missing source of nutrients driving eutrophication in the Great Barrier Reef? |
D Tait |
National Marine Science Centre, Southern Cross University |
$83,000 |
Jul '16 - Jul '19 |
|
HSF 16/6
|
Insights into the provenance of the four Australian broomrapes (Orobanche) - taxonomy informing environmental management and biosecurity options |
E Biffin |
State Herbarium of South Australia, Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources |
$30,000 |
Jul '16 - Jul '17 |
|
HSF 16/7 |
Can Aboriginal fire management restore mammal communities? |
D Nimmo |
Institute for Land, Water & Society, Charles Sturt University |
$85,971 |
Jul '16 - Jul '19 |
|
HSF 17/1 |
Can excluding feral livestock from waterholes recreate refuges for savannah birds? |
M Massaro |
Institute of Land, Water & Society, Charles Sturt University |
$72,234 |
Jul '17 - Jul 20 |
|
HSF 17/2 |
Beyond colour: discovering how beetles manipulate near-infrared light to control their temperature |
D Stuart-Fox |
School of Biosciences, University of Melbourne |
$76,691 |
Jul '17 - Jul 20 |
|
HSF 17/3 |
Harnessing ecological and genomic approaches to restore Australian grasslands in the face of global change |
K Hodgins |
School of Biological Sciences, Monash University |
$87,006 |
Jul '17 - Jul 20 |
|
HSF 17/4 |
Rapid detection and diagnosis of plant pathogens |
J Rathjen |
Research School of Biology, Australian National University |
$50,400 |
Jul '17 - Jul 19 |
|
HSF 17/5 |
Plant biodiversity and adaptation in a changing world: the effects of animal pollinators |
M Whitehead |
School of Biosciences, University of Melbourne |
$53,994 |
Jul '17 - Jul 19 |
|
HSF 17/6 |
The genetic and structural diversity of spider-silk |
S Blamires |
School of Biolgical Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales |
$63,000 |
Jul '17 - Jul 20 |
|
HSF 17/7 |
Reducing an anti-nutritional compound in legumes to increase use of a sustainable biological nitrogen source |
I Searle |
School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide |
$75,000 |
Jul '17 - Jul 20 |
|
HSF 17/8 |
Ocelli in walking insects: insights from day and night active bull ants |
A Narendra |
Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie Univeristy |
$84,308 |
Jul '17 - Jul 20 |
|
HSF 17/9 |
Conservation of Prasophyllum - understanding orchid mycorrhizal fungi to save threatened orchids from extinction |
N Reiter |
Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria |
$41,290 |
Jul '17 - Jul 20 |
|
HSF 17/10 |
A next generation sequencing (NGS) approach to investigate paralogy in Xanthostemon (Myrtaceae) |
P Wilson |
National Herbarium of New South Wales, Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust |
$90,000 |
Jul '17 - Jul 20 |
|
HSF 17/11 |
Do novel mineralisation reactions in calcium carbonate sands decrease their resistance to Ocean Acidification? |
A Kessler |
Water Studies Centre, School of Chemistry, Monash University |
$84,994 |
Jul '17 - Jul 20 |
|
HSF 17/12 |
Arresting the pernicuious decline of keystone habitats in agricultural landscapes |
T Doherty |
School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University |
$61,269 |
Jul '17 - Jul 20 |
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