Securing the future of Australia’s threatened tropical mountain flora for science and society (Old ID 25045)
Role
Principal Investigator
Description
This project will enable us to secure the future of Australia’s climate-threatened tropical mountaintop plants. We will do this by building a multi-strategy ex-situ conservation reserve to ‘backup’ at-risk wild populations and support research, display and education. Our novel research on seed banking strategies, genetic diversity and plant tolerance of extreme climates will ensure that the reserve collections, distributed across multiple Botanic Gardens and Seed Banks along Australia’s east coast, incorporate high redundancy, are genetically and physiologically diverse, and climatically matched to wild habitat.
Date
01 Jan 2019 - 31 Dec 2023
Project Type
GRANT
Keywords
plant conservation;plant physiology;botanic gardens;genetics;climate change;extinction
Funding Body
Wet Tropics Management Authority, Ian Potter Foundation
Amount
550000
Project Team
Stuart Worboys;Alex Cheesman;Lucas Cernusak;Arun Singh Ramesh