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 Jul 2019 - 30 Jun 2024
Project Type
DONATION
Keywords
plant conservation;Extinction;Climate Change;Genetics
Funding Body
HLB Mann Judd Australasian Association
Amount
3000
Project Team
N/A