Role
Principal Investigator
Description
Nearshore vegetated habitats are one of the most productive ecosystem on the planet providing services valued at AU$7 trillion annually. These habitats are structured by both bottom-up (supply of resources; e.g., light and nutrients) and top-down (consumption by animals) forces. While bottom-up forces are well understood and can be mapped with great precision, comparatively little is known about the geography of top-down forces. Here, I will conduct standardised predation experiments in vegetated (seagrass) and unstructured habitats in tropical Queensland linking with identical studies at sites around the world to produce the first global heat map of predation in coastal environments.
Date
01 Sep 2016 - 31 Dec 2017
Project Type
GRANT
Keywords
Marine habitats;Mapping;Predation
Funding Body
James Cook University
Amount
14781
Project Team
N/A